The fact that this poll is at 50% yes makes me depressed. On that note people who said no are the only ones I would trust with Immortality.
Same thought as along as there is no afterlife consequences I would kill truly evil people.Simon Pettersson said:Exactly my thoughts. I wouldn´t have any problem with it, if your immortal you can even take the jailtime ....Trezu said:i would kill Criminal's, they deserve it more then anyone else.
go Death note up in this
Would be like a nights sleep for you.
Ummm, what? Been watching a lot of Dexter? I do not believe that killing a criminal makes you good. You compare this with fantasy? Where the fictional monster in question tends to be purely evil in its nature, subject and entitled to no law and specifically presented as the adversary to the protagonist.ZephyrFireStrom said:It's not hard to kill corruption, specially humans, they're all fragile in the end. What moral implications? Killing corrupted people makes you a good guy, it's as simple as that. It's similar to how fantasy works. Does killing a monster make you a monster? No it makes you a hero.Goofguy said:snip
I thought of that too but it's not murder if they actually want to die. Although some people might try to argue that point.GundamSentinel said:I would become a doctor and open a euthanasia clinic. I'd be doing something good for a lot of people.
I like that this is 50/50. It shows that there is controversy in this topic, and controversial topics are the most interestingEddie the head said:The fact that this poll is at 50% yes makes me depressed. On that note people who said no are the only ones I would trust with Immortality.
Heh. That reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode in which the guy sells his soul to the devil for immortality, pulls pranks on people by jumping out of windows and in front of trains, decides to pull a prank on the police by earning the death sentence (via murdering his wife), whereupon his sentence is reduced to life in prison. A guard even tells the guy "Eh, life in prison ain't so bad. You've got like what, 20 years or so left? It'll be fine."Mortai Gravesend said:Eh, I don't even need to worry about the moral aspects of it, I don't think I could get away with it for very long without being caught and locked up.
Well he actually said kill a PERSON, and somehow i dont think anything with the intelligence of a plant count. That goes for braindead people also. ( i see those as a previous vessel of a person, like a good frame to a good painting when the painting is gone.)Keoul said:Heh I think after too long people would start to look like your avatar OP.
Question about it though, would abortion doctors live forever?
In the anime, you have to have the face of the person you wish to kill at the top of your thoughts. As you said, this is to avoid killing people with duplicate names. If you don't know the face, you can't kill them.Byere said:This, but not to that extent. See, if you wanted to live forever, you'd have to keep killing. If you're only killing criminals, even for the most minor infractions, eventually crime will cease to exist. That being the case, eventually, you'll run out of criminals to punish.Trezu said:i would kill Criminal's, they deserve it more then anyone else.
go Death note up in this
Also, on that note (no pun intended), with Death Note, I thought up a flaw with its logic. You only have to write down the name of the person and/or the date/time they'll die... but what about people who share the same name? What if there was a perfectly innocent man named Charles Bronson? How would the Death Note distinguish between him and the murderer?
I dunno, maybe I'm forgetting something as I haven't watched the series in forever. Does it say you have to picture that person in your mind as well or something? If that's the case, what id you don't know the face of the person?
Maybe I'm thinking too much into this.
OT: I'd go for immortality, even by this method. As for getting caught, how could they catch you. If you have telekinetic powers, you could use many a method to make it look like accidents. Hell, you could go for a full house by causing 2+ cars to crash and kill multiple people in one go (the bonus for murders would stack, right?)
Personally though, I'd prefer an immortality that DOESN'T involve murder. I'd happily live forever if it was passive (as in I didn't have to do anything... I'd just be immortal. None of this Highlander stuff where everyone else who's immortal will come at me for a chance to kill me despite no personal grudge, etc)