Poll: You can bring a loved one back from the dead, or kill a terrible person.

[Vampire cat]

Sorry grangran, but it's for the better...

Your going down Ingrid Newkirk, president of PETA. Enjoy burning in hell for all the lies and madness you spread! I'm sorry, sometimes my passionate interest for the well being of animals across the world gets the better of me. Environmental terrorism is still terrorism, it doesn't make it "activism" just because your a 22-year-old male from Wisconsin... Seriously people, no animal should have to die in a painful manner, by slow death or torture-like handling, but you can't let the damn cows free... This isn't Lion King, they'll die on their own! Besides, humans need food, and meat is just so damn good...

 

[Phantomess]

I'd bring back my grandfather. He left a lot of people in mourning when he died, my grandmother and I probably as the most heartbroken. I'd love to see her truly happy again and go fishing with him again. I miss him so much.

 

[emeraldrafael]

How is one more selfish hen the other? If anything, the first is the less selfish option, cause then at least you're not ending a life, and what that life could do to better society.

I'd refuse both. The fact that you're rbinging someone back to life would be too much of a shock, and the implications of the people that knew them suddenly seeing would probably make it difficult for the person you brought back.

On the other hand, its wrong to end another human's life regardless of the reason. Who are you to choose for them? And what about those who would be influenced (in what could be a positive way).

 

[Nackl of Gilmed]

There is literally a one hundred per cent probability that the guy is in fact an evil Djinn, and that picking either option will somehow result in me suffering some tragic ironic death.

On the other hand, I've always kind of wanted to resurrect Douglas Adams.

 

[Drummie666]

Hmm... I don't have any loved ones that are dead that I really want back alive. My grandpa had multiple strokes so he couldn't talk, walk or move his right arm, so I'd rather not bring him back to that. Any other people also had some problems. My uncle was an alcoholic and, even though he tried many times he couldn't manage to keep off the stuff... I'd rather not put him back into that hell either.

Sorry, I just got all emotional on you people.

Anyway, there's a lot of people that I would like dead... but I don't think it would be right to kill them. I much prefer hanging out on the internet, joining other people who laugh at those people... but then again. Yeah. Let's kill a single asshole. It would make the world a slightly better place.

 

[Shining_Pyrelight]

Fred Phelps. 'Nuff said.

Then I would throw a "God Hates Fred Phelps" party.

This is what I thought of at first too, but since he's so old he'll die soon anyway. I'd kill the daughter (Shirley Phelps or whatever), why waste a free kill on someone that will die in a few years on his own.


OT: As for me, I think I'd take time, think it over and kill someone that really needed to die.
Though tbh, I believe that once your dead you're finally able to rest (not in a religious way btw). I wouldn't want to steal that from someone I love...though I do miss my dog :'(

 

[Evidencebased]

I went with the "kill" option, because I don't have a close loved one who's died (I'm lucky) but there are plenty of people that the world would be better off without (and who I could not realistically kill.) Good thing we just get a single kill, or this would get "Deathnote"ish very quickly!

 

[Foxbat Flyer]

If you had a chance to kill hitler when he was alive, would you do it? I know i sure would!

 

[sumanoskae]

Killing one evil person isn't going to save anyone.

If it's a person without power, then nothing will change, and if they do have power, then you create ripples beyond your understanding and fuck things up worse then they were before, because the vacuum of power will attract other people in search of power.

In the end, you can't fix the world, and trying delays the inevitable at best.

 

[Evidencebased]

Killing one evil person isn't going to save anyone.

If it's a person without power, then nothing will change, and if they do have power, then you create ripples beyond your understanding and fuck things up worse then they were before, because the vacuum of power will attract other people in search of power.

In the end, you can't fix the world, and trying delays the inevitable at best.

They could have just a little power, like someone holding hostages or someone who regularly beats the crap out of their spouse. Killing them might cause ripples, but no more than a sniper bullet or a lucky bout of self-defense would. (Killing someone like Kim Jong Il, for example, I agree would probably just cause more problems than it would solve. I mean, it's just a mysterious wish granted by a shadowy fast food worker; let's not be unrealistic here! )

 

[Soviet Steve]

Folks I know had had their time, I think capping Gadaffi at this stage would save more lives than me bringing back my grandmother to suffer for a few years extra.

 

[Leg End]

I'd bring him back. Damn lung cancer...

Fucking Brofist and Brohug.

;~;

 

[olehund]

Can I bring myself back from the dead? It's not really up to me to bring another person back. forced resurrection ain't really my thing, but for myself, now that's something I can get behind.

 

[sumanoskae]

Killing one evil person isn't going to save anyone.

If it's a person without power, then nothing will change, and if they do have power, then you create ripples beyond your understanding and fuck things up worse then they were before, because the vacuum of power will attract other people in search of power.

In the end, you can't fix the world, and trying delays the inevitable at best.

They could have just a little power, like someone holding hostages or someone who regularly beats the crap out of their spouse. Killing them might cause ripples, but no more than a sniper bullet or a lucky bout of self-defense would. (Killing someone like Kim Jong Il, for example, I agree would probably just cause more problems than it would solve. I mean, it's just a mysterious wish granted by a shadowy fast food worker; let's not be unrealistic here! )

If they just have a little power, then it seems a waste in comparison to brining my cat back to life.

It could still have unknown effects(Abuse is often much more complex then it seems, and killing one abusive spouse will often just land the person with another).

I'm just saying that being totally altruistic is unrealistic and pointless, why pretend you do good things above all else, or do them for the sake of others alone?. All you achieve is denial and frustration.

If you honestly had the chance to do something like this, would you really want to try to cure an incurable condition out of some misplaced sense of self righteousness, instead of brightening your own existence?

 

[rokkolpo]

Kill a murderer and help society a bit? Hell yeah.

Which would in turn make you a murderer that deserves to be killed.(by your logic)

OT: I'd do nothing, as much as I'd like to bring someone back.
And no-one deserves to be killed.
thoroughly kicked in the balls is what I'd like to give to a lot of people though.

Nope. Not at all actually. Nothing wrong with killing bad people, helps the world out a bit. Plus, I am not killing them, am I? Nope. You can go with your 'nobody deserves to be killed' opinion, and I will go with mine.

You know that Hitler thought Yews were bad people right?
Was his killing justified because he thought they were bad?
(Extreme example, I know)

Bad is just subjective, opinion doesn't grant you the right to kill people.
And yes if you permit someone to die, you have effectively indirectly killed him.

P.S. do not take this as an accusation that you are like Hitler.
I was just making a point.

 

[Jeff Gibson]

I pick neither, now back to work. My fries aren't going to cook themselves.

 

[UnknownGunslinger]

If you bring someone back, they're just going to die again. If you kill a dead person, they stay gone.

Unless fast food guy brings the one you killed back
Awkwaaard!!!

 

[Brandon237]

I would let time pass until someone I loved died, then use it. If it has to instant choice, then I would flip a coin for Rob Mugabe/ Julius Malema to die very painfully.