# Would You Commit Murder To Stop An Irresistible Force?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-commit-murder-to-stop-an-irresistible-force/734117
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 10, 2015, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-commit-murder-to-stop-an-irresistible-force/734117 "2015-10-10T03:19:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2015, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-commit-murder-to-stop-an-irresistible-force/734117/1 "2015-10-10T03:19:44Z")
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2015, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-commit-murder-to-stop-an-irresistible-force/734117/2 "2015-10-10T04:08:39Z")
You ask that like irresistible forces are necessarily something bad.
Why would I particularly want to stop an irresistible force?
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### Author:  [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2015, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-commit-murder-to-stop-an-irresistible-force/734117/3 "2015-10-10T04:13:34Z")
Depends on [del]who[/del] what it is.
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### Author:  [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2015, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-commit-murder-to-stop-an-irresistible-force/734117/4 "2015-10-10T04:17:14Z")
No, 'cause then I’d be single.
😉
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2015, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-commit-murder-to-stop-an-irresistible-force/734117/5 "2015-10-10T04:28:42Z")
If you could stop one, it wouldn’t be irresistible, would it?
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2015, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-commit-murder-to-stop-an-irresistible-force/734117/6 "2015-10-10T05:04:49Z")
No.
I don’t understand the question, but no.
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### Author:  [@Jake\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake_Jones)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2015, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-commit-murder-to-stop-an-irresistible-force/734117/7 "2015-10-10T09:43:27Z")
Only if it encountered an immovable object.
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### Author:  [@Tread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tread)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2015, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-commit-murder-to-stop-an-irresistible-force/734117/8 "2015-10-10T20:28:54Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#):
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> …Would You Commit Murder To Stop An Irresistible Force? …
😕😕
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2015, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-commit-murder-to-stop-an-irresistible-force/734117/9 "2015-10-10T20:38:54Z")
> [@Tread](#):
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> 😕😕
Yeah. I deleted the entire thread because I had a really long theoretical that… after I looked at it… reminded me too much of the original Dracula.
So, I erased it. The title stayed; it wouldn’t delete. Understand?
TL;DR- I created and erased a thread inside of 30 seconds, but the title is still there.
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2015, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-commit-murder-to-stop-an-irresistible-force/734117/10 "2015-10-10T20:41:13Z")
> [@Senegoid](#):
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> You ask that like irresistible forces are necessarily something bad.
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> Why would I particularly want to stop an irresistible force?
I erased the thread. The theoretical was of one that was something bad.
Titles don’t erase. oh well.
_nothing to see here folks_
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### Author:  [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2015, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-commit-murder-to-stop-an-irresistible-force/734117/11 "2015-10-11T00:28:01Z")
I’ll close this.