...in front of your enemy's child?

[nonl33t m4st3r]

I'd do it "Kill Bill" style; kill the dude, and tell the kid that if he wants revenge, train come find me.

Edit: Ninja'd.

 

[HentMas]

Kill him infront of the kid, tell the kid "my name is [insert name here], i live in [insert direction here] your father was a dick, if you want to get revenge, grow up, i will be waiting you"

 

[Javelk]

Look the guy square in the eye and say "Tell the kid to get lost, we have business." If he does, kill him right then and there. If he doesn't, grab the kid, toss him out side, shut the door, then kill the bastard.

 

[Sam G]

I'd beat my foe to within an inch of his life, but spare him the killing blow, so the kid would be all like "Thanks for sparing my father, dude!" And I'd be all like, deeply, "Don't follow in your father's footsteps" And then I'd sheath my sword, put my straw hat back on and turn away into the wind so my cloak billows behind me, and then the next time the foe tries to kill me, and has me against a wall with a sword against my neck, the child'd be all like "No, don't kill him!". Yeah...

 

[Tanfastic]

Well if that's the case, I'd burn the place down making it look like and accident killing them both.

If the kid was young I would take him/her up as my own and train them in the Jedi ways.

 

[E-mantheseeker]

I would fulfill my purpose for the visit, and take the child with me, and showed him through his life why I did what I did, he'll be able to do the same to me, when he's a grown up and still disagrees with my motives.
This taking any mother out of the equation.

 

[Flickering Star]

Knock the kid out first, Kill the parent, then put the kid in a expensive boarding school, and pay for grief counseling. And put them through college. Maybe they'll at least hold off on killing me till their education is done

 

[Erana]

There was a dog groomer whose father was an aquaintance with my mother, and was a terrible person. He hurt many animals, including a beagle who had gone in for a bath and died from broken ribs, a lascerated lung and liver, as well as heat stroke.
This beagle belonged to a lawyer, however, so he got caught and was facing criminal charges. Instead of facing them, however, he got his kids in the car, drove to his wife's house, slit her throat in front of their children, then shot himself in his grooming business.

It is never alright to kill someone in front of their children like that.
Never.

 

[Urgh76]

...walk away

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

I would kill them and the kid as well. If fiction has taught me anything it's that if you kill a family member and leave the kid with nothing they always come back and kick your ass in 20 some odd years when they're a muscle bound badass and you're starting to get old.

 

[Sir Ollie]

Burst through the door with a shotgun.

Kill my enemy, then kill the kid.

Then rob the house.

 

[Mikkaddo]

Scenario: You've been on a long journey to kill your enemy. If this was a book/movie the audience would be rooting for you to storm into the lair of your enemy and have an epic final showdown. and normally you would. You have your reasons to want this person dead, whatever reason it may be, they may be planning to destroy a city or they have murdered your whole village, or another "justifiable" reason to end this person's life.

However when you burst into where your enemy is, blood stained from all the minor threats in the way, with rock music blaring in the background, you notice your enemy sitting down... with their child. Under normal circumstances you would have engaged your enemy to a fight to the death (or just shoot them in the face) and settle matters, but how would this child affect your next actions? (if at all)

Edit: The child in this scenario is 12 years old.

I'd take a cue from

Spoiler

Beatrix Kiddo

and not kill the enemy when the child is there, but tell them me and their father/mother have some "grown up" things to talk about, THEN proceed with the murder. After that, assuming the hild sees us, or sees the corpse before I'm gone I'd tell them "in a few years . . . if you're still hard off about this . . . come find me, I'll be waiting"

come to think about it, even if the kid hadn't seen it, I'd find them and then tell them before I leave.

 

[DanDeFool]

I'd kill their child. JUST their child.

What better way to avenge myself against a hated enemy than to tear their family apart? And, assuming I've just taken a huge chunk of time out to go on a long journey to kill my enemy, I don't really have to worry about re-revenge, because apparently I have nothing to live for.

And then, I'd smile at my enemy like this:

 

[BENZOOKA]

I'd tell the kid to go elsewhere and shoot that enemy.

This sounds very much like a scene from Kill Bill.

 

[jamesworkshop]

kill the kid don't want to leave orphans

 

[Lazy Kitty]

Kill them both in one swing of my blood stained weapon of Doom.
What? I'm a villain and that pathetic excuse for a hero slowed down some of my Evil plans!
Also, if I don't kill the child, he'll grow up and come back for revenge, thus slowing down my plans even more.