Poll: Could You Pull the Trigger?

[Marble Dragon]

Q: Do You think you could take a life to defend your own?
Yes. If it was absolutely necessary, yes. That isn't to say it wouldn't harm me, that I wouldn't be haunted by it forever. But I probably would.
Q: Would having a friend or family member's life on the line with yours make you change your reaction?
By this, do you mean that the person attacking me will also harm my family? Yeah, I'd kill the person quicker if they were threatening my sister, or any close family.
Q: Would the difference between the up-close kill, and the point and click of a ranged weapon have a difference on you?
Depends on how mad I am. If this person is threatening to kill an innocent child, or a very close family member, I would probably be able to strangle that bastard. But if it's just me, that would be harder. Either way, I'd prefer a gun. (That sounded horrible, and I know it.)
Q: Would having a stranger's life on the line with yours make you change your reaction?
Yes. I would be more violent. Not as much as if they were threatening to kill my family or friends, but I would be angrier.

 

[Tdc2182]

Q: Do You think you could take a life to defend your own.
You are god damn right I would.
Q: Would having a friend or family member's life on the line with yours make you change your reaction?
If you are saying that a family member would be harmed if I did, then I would try to do
some quick thinking.
Q: Would the difference between the up-close kill, and the point and click of a ranged weapon have a difference on you?
Close up. Not because I want to see him die, I just wanna make sure he is dead. Unless he someway harmed someone I love. Plus, I am no sniper. I wont take that chance
Q: Would having a stranger's life on the line with yours make you change your reaction?
Yet again, I am unsure if this is saying if a stranger is in danger if I pull the trigger, or if he is safe if I pull the trigger. But probably not as effective as if a family member was in danger.

 

[Koeryn]

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I honeslty don't think I'd be able to pull the trigger, even if it was me or them.
I still haven't even watched Saddam Hussein's execution. I'm the only one I know of who hasn't.
Watching a man or woman die doesn't seem pleasant to me.

I haven't seen that video, nor have I seen the decapitations of American soldiers by Al Qaeada. I have seen lots of video of people dieing, but I haven't seen the Saddam one, so you're not the only one.

 

[ShadowsofHope]

Q: Do You think you could take a life to defend your own.

Yes, I am typically narcissist and value my own life and its survival above all else. If threatened, I will act accordingly.

Q: Would having a friend or family member's life on the line with yours make you change your reaction?

Depends on how close the friend is, or family member. If I could save them without too much harm to myself, I will. If not, I don't know. If you mean towards defending my family with a split second decision to kill a threat, then yes, I still would without a doubt.

Q: Would the difference between the up-close kill, and the point and click of a ranged weapon have a difference on you?

Not sure. Up close and personal is just that.. personal. Feeling the blade rip through another individuals flesh, blood getting on you.. probably not without a second thought.

Ranged weapon? Most likely my choice of weapon, in any case.

Q: Would having a stranger's life on the line with yours make you change your reaction?

Not really. A stranger's life would mean little to me, as I have no personal or otherwise connection to them.

 

[Heeman89]

Q: Do You think you could take a life to defend your own.
A: Yes, but I would probably have some sort of remorseful feeling afterwards, and probably spend days, weeks, even months after the event analyzing the event to see if there was another option open.

Q: Would having a friend or family member's life on the line with yours make you change your reaction?
A: No, and there would be less remorseful feeling and analyzing afterwards. That's how I am, I put other people's safety before mine in everything I do.

Q: Would the difference between the up-close kill, and the point and click of a ranged weapon have a difference on you?
A: A little, I've used firearms a lot in my life and I know the damage they can do but I've never seen that damage on a human being and I don't think what I've seen hunting would prepare me for seeing it on a human being.

Q: Would having a stranger's life on the line with yours make you change your reaction?
A: A lot of factors would be quickly analyzed in this situation, Main one would be: Gender of the stranger, if its a woman then no question I'm helping.

 

[Shru1kan]

Yes to all four. And I would prefer to stick the guy with a knife close range if he even went after ANYONE I cared about.

 

[Yoshemo]

If theres a chance he could kill me or seriously hurt me before I get away or the cops come, hes dead. Theres no excuse for killing another person, and my loved ones mean too much to me to just die when I could of survived

 

[dehawaiiansupaman]

1. Yeah I would take a life in self defense. It would be the last choice since there are better ways to eliminate a threat (such as breaking limbs, knocking out or disabling). I honestly think that taking a life would be hard though, since every martial art I've ever studied taught to avoid killing and instead look to disarm and disable.
2. If it was a family member attacking me then I would hesitate but would probably seek to disable before any thought of taking a life. If my family is being threatened then killing in self defense surpasses non lethal ways instantly.
3. I would prefer to face up close since it leaves room for a non lethal takedown but if it was already at the point where its kill or be killed I'd prefer at range (especially if the other guy had a gun).
4. Yeah. I'm a bit of a bleeding heart. If I saw someone's life being threatened then I'd probably jump in. If that led to me having to take another person's life then so be it.

 

[KarumaK]

Q: Do You think you could take a life to defend your own.
Easily.

Q: The BadGuy is threatening not just your life, but your family's. Does this alter your reaction?
Depends on which family member it is.

Q: Would the difference between the up-close kill, and the point and click of a ranged weapon have a difference on you?
Yes, up-close I could be sure about it. Ranged means I might miss giving him an attack of opportunity.

Q: Would having a stranger's life on the line with yours make you change your reaction?
Not likely, maybe if it's like an unloved orphan child. Who just offered me his lolly they only get candy at the orphanage once a month or some shit like that.

 

[Sir Rammington Steel]

Q: Do You think you could take a life to defend your own.
Yes, if somebody attempted to take my life I would have no qualms with taking there's before they got the chance. It's not that I find my life to be more valuable than anybody else's, it is simply the fact that if somebody is trying to kill me I wouldn't think about it. I would simply kill the other man before he could kill me.

Q: The BadGuy is threatening not just your life, but your family's. Does this alter your reaction?
If anything it would give me a greater sense of urgency. I would be much less likely to listen to anything they have to say and more likely to kill them before they got the chance to even harm anyone close to me.

Q: Would the difference between the up-close kill, and the point and click of a ranged weapon have a difference on you?
Yes, I think that it would make a big difference to have the attacker's blood literally on me. As opposed to simply point click boom. It would be a different kind of mental stress on top of having taken the life of another.

Q: Would having a stranger's life on the line with yours make you change your reaction?
It would not change choice of taking their life before they took mine, though I may feel different about it afterwards if that happened to be the case.

 

[Acies Argentum]

Q: Do You think you could take a life to defend your own.
Definitely. In the heat of things I have no doubt that, if killing was the most apparent method of preserving my own life, I would kill. How I would feel about it after, however, is where the issue would probably come in.
Q: The BadGuy is threatening not just your life, but your family's. Does this alter your reaction?
I'd probably kill them all the quicker. It'd be a lot easier to rationalize afterward too.
Q: Would the difference between the up-close kill, and the point and click of a ranged weapon have a difference on you?
I've always thought killing up-close was the better method. if you're going to end life, you should have a front-row seat to all the repercussions. Killing from range would probably be a lot easier though. Just aim and pull the trigger. No blood on your hands, and you don't even have to watch them die if you don't want to.
Q: Would having a stranger's life on the line with yours make you change your reaction?
Kind of a similar prospect to the family issue. Caring for them or not, somebody's relying on me and that makes it all the harder to fail. It'd make the kill a lot easier to justify to myself afterward as well.

 

[Bellvedere]

Q: Do You think you could take a life to defend your own.
I think it depends entirely on the exact situation. There's not really any justification for murder but knowing the reason they were threatening my life would make a huge difference to how I felt about it. It would also depend on exactly what they had planned such as just killing someone or plans to torture and rape. I have no idea what I'd do in a situation like that.
Q: Would having a friend or family member's life on the line with yours make you change your reaction?
I think I would be more hesitant to kill in front of someone I cared about. Though that being said if it was more than just my life on the line I would be more willing to kill.
Q: Would the difference between the up-close kill, and the point and click of a ranged weapon have a difference on you?
Well besides the fact that if I tried to shoot someone from a distance I'd pretty much certainly miss, it would make a difference emotionally too.
Q: Would having a stranger's life on the line with yours make you change your reaction?
Yes. Same answer as with family. I don't know them, but if either way I would be responsible for death I'd rather be responsible for the death of the person that caused the situation.

 

[Lancer723]

Q: Do You think you could take a life to defend your own.
Yes

Q: The BadGuy is threatening not just your life, but your family's. Does this alter your reaction?
I would kill him better

Q: Would the difference between the up-close kill, and the point and click of a ranged weapon have a difference on you?
Up close takes more effort, also a lower likelihood of success depending on the person's physical attributes, from a philosophical standpoint it changes nothing for me.

Q: Would having a stranger's life on the line with yours make you change your reaction?
I would do it while doing a barrel roll, so it would be more awesome for the other person.

 

[ender214]

Q: Do You think you could take a life to defend your own?
Yes I could and would. I probably would be able to with a lot less provocation, but the consequences that would come afterwards prevents me from killing people in situations where I am not in the legal right.

Q: The BadGuy is threatening not just your life, but your family's. Does this alter your reaction?
Seeing that I'm about to kill him anyway, no.

Q: Would the difference between the up-close kill, and the point and click of a ranged weapon have a difference on you?
I would prefer it to be up close. I've had some basic training in both hand-to-hand combat and knife combat (nothing serious, but enough so that I'm not copying movie fight scenes and actually doing something practical). And I can't aim for the life of me.

Q: Would having a stranger's life on the line with yours make you change your reaction?
As I stated earlier, the man's dead. I plan on killing him as quickly as possible. Additional victims may complicate the matter, but in the end either the BadGuy or I will be dead.

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

Q: Do You think you could take a life to defend your own.
Would be pretty difficult, I imagine. What if the guy is a normal person who is forced to do this for some bizzare reason. That makes it a tough choice.
If it's a mugger though, screw him.
Q: The BadGuy is threatening not just your life, but your family's. Does this alter your reaction?
Yes, than it would be pretty easy. I'd shoot him.
Q: Would the difference between the up-close kill, and the point and click of a ranged weapon have a difference on you?
Well, I guess.
Q: Would having a stranger's life on the line with yours make you change your reaction?
Yes, again, it would be much easier.

 

[joshuaayt]

1 Yes. My DNA has, against all odds, made it thus far in the world. As a sapient life form, it is my duty to ensure that it isn't destroyed because of some prick. I would defend myself, and expect the person in question to do the same, for the same reason.
2 If this person were going to hurt my family, it wouldn't alter my responce much- I'd probably just be angrier.
3 Type of weapon doesn't matter; dead villain == dead villain
4 Roughly the same as answer 2

 

[fanklok]

Q: Do You think you could take a life to defend your own.
Maybe, but when I think about it my preferred fighting style would be to disable them in as many way as possible. It's hard to get killed by someone with two broken elbows.

Q: The BadGuy is threatening not just your life, but your family's. Does this alter your reaction?
Could be never know till it happens.

Q: Would the difference between the up-close kill, and the point and click of a ranged weapon have a difference on you?
Nope both can accomplish what I'd want to do

Q: Would having a stranger's life on the line with yours make you change your reaction?
Some nameless face? No way.

 

[likalaruku]

I'd rather use a knife & spare my fradgile sence of hearing. My uncle went deaf in one ear from firing a gun.

Well, concidering that I immidiately lash out violently at objects that I bump into if they bruuise me (you should see the dents I've put in filecabinets & doors), I should say that I would not hesitate to defend myself.

However, I fear that I might go beyond mere defence & simply go all the way, like an angry cop who empties his gun into an already-dead body. I also like chewing on people's arms, so I might want to take a souvenier that sould deffinately get me arrested.

 

[duchaked]

yes
definitely
hesitation? most likely, especially due to real life consequences
plus I'm not as cold-blooded as I try to seem...I really would feel bad
but in a dire situation and in self-defense? oh yeah
in defense of someone I care about? no hesitation then (huMAN nature to protect women and children)

if someone was trying to severely hurt someone I love, *****'s going down
and I'd double tap

 

[KiruTheMant]

1. Yes,I lost most of my belief for change with my damn drunkard lazy stepfather who beat me.So i'm damned not going to let a killer and possible maniac free by dying.
2. Yet another reason to do so,if this is a maniac or someone whos going to turn around and do it again mere seconds later,I would'nt so much as hesitate.
3. Depends on the Close kill meaning,With my bare hands or a Weapon?I could put the weapon away and forget about it.
4. See 2.