# Poll: Do you want somebody dead? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 25, 2006, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-want-somebody-dead/374083 "2006-09-25T16:35:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-want-somebody-dead/374083/21 "2006-09-25T17:58:14Z")
There’s one person in particular whose presence I wouldn’t miss. I trust that karma will take care of this for me; the karmic repercussions of doing so myself (never mind the legal risk) would wipe out any gain. My energy would be better spent on forgiving, but I’m not there yet. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-want-somebody-dead/374083/22 "2006-09-25T18:31:15Z")
There are plenty of people who I wouldn’t particularly care if they were killed, and a few who I think that the world would actually be better without, if they were to somehow meet their demise. However, I have no desire to actively encourage said demise in any fashion. (with the exception of Osama Bin Laden & company- I’d try to gut him like a fish if I could get my hands on him) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-want-somebody-dead/374083/23 "2006-09-25T18:40:47Z")
[QUOTE=bump] There are plenty of people who I wouldn’t particularly care if they were killed, and a few who I think that the world would actually be better without, if they were to somehow meet their demise. However, I have no desire to actively encourage said demise in any fashion. (with the exception of Osama Bin Laden & company- I’d try to gut him like a fish if I could get my hands on him) [/QUOTE] The OP specifically stated people in your extended social circle. If you are admitting that OBL is in your social circle then expect a knock on your door from some guys in suits and sunglasses any minute. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-want-somebody-dead/374083/24 "2006-09-25T18:45:19Z")
No, I don’t want anyone dead. There are a few people whose deaths I wouldn’t be sad to hear about, but none in my extended social circle (infamous criminals, that sort of thing). ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-want-somebody-dead/374083/25 "2006-09-25T18:45:28Z")
There is nobody I want dead. I just don’t hate anyone that much. ---
**Author:** ![diggleblop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@diggleblop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggleblop)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-want-somebody-dead/374083/26 "2006-09-25T18:50:21Z")
I wouldn’t wish death on someone I wanted dead. ---
**Author:** ![wasson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4da419/32.png) [@wasson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wasson)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-want-somebody-dead/374083/27 "2006-09-25T19:12:32Z")
I hate 1 man enough to want him dead, and I feel like that desire is slowly eating away at my soul. I’m working hard to let go of those hateful thoughts, forgive him for what he’s done, and move on with my life without the hatred. Ask again in a couple months, and hopefully I’ll answer with a resounding “no”. ---
**Author:** ![Khangol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecae2f/32.png) [@Khangol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khangol)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-want-somebody-dead/374083/28 "2006-09-25T19:36:24Z")
Yes, there are still a few people living whose mortal coils I would be quite happy to shuffle loose. I would consider it nothing more than doing my part to improve the human species and civil society. But ask me again in a year or so; if things go well, I might be able to answer “Not anymore.” ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-want-somebody-dead/374083/29 "2006-09-25T19:39:06Z")
[QUOTE=indecisive1] This is going to be another pat myself on the back thread. There was one about who voted and who didn’t awhile ago… talk about your chest thumping. You’ll get piles of I am above that responses, and very few responses like mine. Why bother? [/QUOTE] You’re probably right. And I’m not sure why the other side isn’t responding. Even as I posted my response, I knew it was a matter of temperament & experiences rather than any kind of morality - not wanting to do it doesn’t necessarily make you any kind of a better person, IMO. It simply means you haven’t been offended enough, or you have the temperament that lets it roll off your back. But the thing is, even the people I hate the most have some redeeming quality. If not in them then around them. My first cousin is truly a shithole of a man. He used to beat his wife until she got a spine and opened a beauty salon and now she makes more money than him, so he doesn’t dare to touch her as she has power in the form of her money. So he drinks himself to oblivion with his small paycheck. Do I want him dead? Hell no - I love my uncle (his father) very much and know his heart breaks at having such a useless son, but I also know he wouldn’t want him dead. ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-want-somebody-dead/374083/30 "2006-09-25T19:42:14Z")
No, there’s nobody that I want dead. But I can certainly understand wishing death on someone who has seriously harmed you or someone you love. For example, I think many people would wish death on someone who murdered their child. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-want-somebody-dead/374083/31 "2006-09-25T19:47:28Z")
hee, no sooner do I post then posters come out of the woodwork on the other side. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-want-somebody-dead/374083/32 "2006-09-25T19:48:04Z")
I can think of a few who I wouldn’t miss at all if they were abducted by an alien mothership or sucked into a parallel dimension or something, but I wouldn’t and couldn’t dispatch them myself, either directly or indirectly. After all, as obnoxious as they may be, they still have friends and family who care about them. Go figure. Doesn’t stop me from thinking what a wonderful world it would be if they were transported back to Planet PainInTheAss. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-want-somebody-dead/374083/33 "2006-09-25T20:43:21Z")
For personal reasons there is no one I would want dead. But if I had a way to ensure the death of Phhelps or Bin Laden I would do what was needed to ensure they are no more. The first seems completely evil the second seems in need of lethal justice. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-want-somebody-dead/374083/34 "2006-09-25T20:50:34Z")
Yes. There are three. ---
**Author:** ![samm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@samm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samm)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-want-somebody-dead/374083/35 "2006-09-25T20:54:58Z")
I don’t wish anyone dead. Heavens no! But I do wish one person was so completely disfigured and disgusting that no one could ever glance his way again without a look of complete and utter horror. Then maybe he’d kill himself. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Beltane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@Beltane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beltane)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-want-somebody-dead/374083/36 "2006-09-25T21:10:09Z")
No. But not that I haven’t thought about it for a couple at great length. Fortunatly, the friends I have who where molested as children no longer associate with their parents and extended abusive family. The fact that their families never where prosecuted means that I would not be unhappy if someone else did the deed, but I would not. Age, infirmity and morbid obesity are already limiting the danger they might present to anyone else, so I understand. ---
**Author:** ![Beltane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@Beltane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beltane)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-want-somebody-dead/374083/37 "2006-09-25T21:11:41Z")
That was probably too much info, per the OP… My apologies for going overboard. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-want-somebody-dead/374083/38 "2006-09-25T21:23:28Z")
Yes, there is one, and, yes, I could live with his blood on my hands. ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-want-somebody-dead/374083/39 "2006-09-25T21:25:28Z")
[QUOTE=SnakesCatLady] I am so tempted to say yes, because there is this one woman…but I don’t actually think I could do it. However, when Karma catches up with her, I hope I hear about it so I can throw a party. [/QUOTE] I think I know that same woman 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-want-somebody-dead/374083/40 "2006-09-25T21:33:58Z")
I’d guess there have been at least a dozen people over the years that I wouldn’t shed a tear over should they have shuffled off their mortal coil at the time. Right now there’s just one. I don’t feel predisposed to initiating any ill will, but if I were to be reading a newspaper and find out they drove their car off a cliff or something, I’d take an extra minute to read it over and flip to the next section knowing the world was slightly the better for their absence. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-want-somebody-dead/374083.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-want-somebody-dead/374083.md?page=3)