Yanno, in a situation like this, I might just let loose my inner douchbag and decide according to who that president is that I’m hypothetically saving.
I think I remember the episode the OP mentions. Outside the US Embassy in London? I recall the bystanders being shot in the leg but not the kneecaps. It’s been awhile though. Was it in the kneecaps?
Well, that’s what it looked like to me. Later on we find out he just grazed them. :rolleyes:
Sure did’t look that way with all the blood gushing out.
This is the reason I own guns. To protect me from “good” people like you. By this logic, I should preemptively kill you both (and several others in this thread) because you might someday shoot my family to save yours. So I have to first kill you to save my family. My conscience is clear - you’ve already threatened me. There is a clear and present danger to me or my family. You people are sick.
It’s the reason I quit watching after S1. Prison? The man should be killed, for the safety of all that is good.
Is my loved one trapped in a burning car, covered in flaming acid glue? Is he the next Hitler?
I do find it rather disturbing that so many people would be willing to not only cripple innocent people for life but flat out murder innocent people to save their loved ones. And then to post it here as if they were proud of the fact.
Very surprising. Did not expect to see the above poll results.
Everybody speeds. Everyone is guilty. Kill them all.
I too find it disturbing that so many would cripple, for life, innocent people. They are putting a gigantic burden on that person and their loved ones. I think it’s much more compassionate to just kill the innocent people to save the loved one. Which is what I would do.
If I tried it, I would wind up shooting myself in the foot, and I don’t see how that would help.
I don’t watch the show - what was the premise of the scenario, where shooting people in the kneecap prevented the assassination?
Regards,
Shodan
The show is irrelevant. It was merely an inspiration for this thread. The actual hypothetical posed has very little in common with what went on in the show.
All polls attached to a hypothetical should include an option for “I don’t participate in hypotheticals”. I like to vote, I don’t like to think.
Really? You live in a world where people shoot people over a line at the gas station or to get a crappy TV for half price on Black Friday and this surprises you? How does someone with access to news sources maintain that level of naivety?
This is why I don’t answer hypothetical questions. I don’t want JAQ hunting me down like a dog.
FTR- JAQ, I only want good things for you and your loved ones. Uh, that goes for anyone else out there with guns. Oh, WTH, God bless us all, everyone!
Are…are you calling me good?
Don’t make me do the thing with teh gizmo.
It was in quotes.
Or, “quotes”.
We’re good.
Don’t worry. I’m just fighting the hypothetical. With guns!
I will apply one of my favourite principles and assume people willing to blow off kneecaps simply want to blow off kneecaps anyway.
Well, yeah. That’s what we call an “independent good.” 
Well, not everyone’s kneecaps.
I think the option you want is there: “I’m going to be difficult and fight the hypothetical.”
I’m sure as hell going to fight the agency behind the hypothetical! If I ever meet the bastard who is compelling people to make these kinds of choices, pow!, his kneecaps are the least of his worries!