Poll: Have you ever hated someone so much that you simply wanted to kill them?

[Bamba]

Have you?

Personally, yes I have. I never really tried to kill the person though, but I just wished that the person would die in some way. I never attempt to do extreme things like this to be honest, as I would get in trouble for doing it, a trouble which isnt worth the death of the person in question, despite how much I might hate him/her.

 

[xmbts]

Kill, no.

Yell at, like a lot. Rarely.

And that's not saying I'm a calm person I just barely speak.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

I've never really hated anyone, let alone disliked them enough to kill them.

I've thoroughly disliked people, but never hate.

Hate gets used incorrectly by most people, in my opinion.

 

[ClockworkPenguin]

Have you considered counselling? Its also quite worrying that the only thing holding you back is that you might get in trouble for it.

I mean, I've occasionally imagined kicking people in the balls, when they're being really infuriating but straight up murder is... no, just no.

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

Kill someone personally with my own hands? No.

Kick the living daylights out of said person and then having them mysteriously disappear from my life forever? Yes.

IMO if someone really hates someone enough to fantasize about killing them by themselves, that's the line where I'd recommend counseling or therapy. Hate is a very easy pond to sink into, and it has no bottom.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

We all go a little mad sometimes.

 

[Glasgow]

Yes, and I have.

It's better to try and come to terms with it or disengage, but sometimes it just won't quit.

 

[teqrevisited]

There were a few times where I considered pushing someone down the stairs for their actions, but it would have made me a hypocrite, not to mention I'd be paying the price of my petty revenge for years in prison. In the end I opted to refuse to acknowledge their existence.

 

[itsthesheppy]

Never. Never, ever. Some people deserve to be locked away forever, to live out the remainder of their lives in solitude, separated from society. But I don't have the authority to determine if someone's live deserves to be taken away. I just can't put myself in that place. I'd kill to defend myself. But out of anger? Never.

 

[Evil Top Hat]

Never. I think it's important to realise that an emotional reaction as severe as outrage is an animal emotion that cannot be rationalised as a result, and try to ignore it as such.

 

[Phasmal]

Maybe when I was a teenager and everything was infinitely more dramatic.
But otherwise, no.

Hating people is just letting them get to you. I find it more enjoyable just to not give a crap.

 

[AnarchistFish]

No and it pisses me off when people say they do cos they're either posers who'd never go ahead with it or they're just plain evil if they actually would.

Of course I've gotten extremely angry at people and imagined breaking their bodies and all but that's different. That's fantasy to cope with anger.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

The only times I've been so furious to actually want or attempt to cause physical harm to someone have been when I'm drunk, and even then I've never wanted someone actually dead. If some cataclysmic amount of shit had gone down that I wanted someone literally dead, I would probably be so depressed about the whole affair (I'm assuming it would have to be pretty damned terrible, I'm not the kind of person that supports capital punishment) that I'd try and kill myself.

 

[NightmareExpress]

I honestly wouldn't mind being an executioner to take out some of the scum that gets treated far too well by law systems.
And I mean old-timey. Hand me an axe, give me the switch to the gallows and throw in that iconic mask while you're there.
I recently discovered this about myself when I read some of the developments in the Jon Venables case.

To summarize: he was jailed in '93 when 10 years old for kidnapping a 2-year old boy and savagely beating him to death on train tracks and then released in '01 with a new name, a flat and some money to give him a chance to live "an ordinary life". A few years later, he apparently gets arrested again for possessing and distributing child pornography and then given luxury protection in prison. He eats hamburgers, chips and watches television all day. Victim supporters (including the family of the slain) try to inquire as to why he was sent back, and were denied an answer. Each day this sod lives, he drains the UK of precious tax-money due to him being rather expensive to keep constant tabs on. Also one of the most hated men in Britain.

But for the average person, no.
I would certainly give them a good thrashing if they tried to get physical, though.
Death should be reserved for those deserving.

 

[Damien Black]

Yes, the man who sexually assaulted my ex-girlfriend. I'd kill him in a heartbeat if I didn't respect the ordered society that results from laws which prevent such actions... and nobody who knows him would fault me for it.

 

[EmperorSubcutaneous]

No, and to be honest, this thread and the poll results are making me afraid to leave the house ever.

 

[The White Hunter]

Put a guy through a plexiglass security door once. Also kicked a table in a guys face in a bar. So yes, I have been so angry and full of hate I've wanted to kill somebody before. Never managed though which is probably a good thing.

Edit: I should add that the first instance was in my final sixth form year and the other I was hammered and didn't feel like tolerating the douche bag boyfriend of a girl i cant stand treating me or my friends like shit.

I should also add that I'm now much more grown up and better at dealing with anger, mostly because I'm now far far away from daily torment.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Kill? No. Beat to within an inch of their life? Yes.

 

[You Can't Take the Sky From Me]

Yes. I was seriously bullied in grade school, to the point where I would fake being sick to avoid going. That is the one person in my life I have ever really wanted to kill. At one point, if it hadn't been winter (I was wearing thick gloves) I probably would have hospitalized him when I finally snapped and fought back.

 

[Yopaz]

Yes, but I would never actually go through with it. I get angry with people and I have a few people I genuinely hate, but I wouldn't kill them. I'm not a whackjob.