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    Would you kill for money?

    Theres no real scenario to this, lets just say theres lots of money involved.

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    Re: Would you kill for money?

    My question would be... kill what? Fishermen and Slaughter men kill all the time for not much money at all.

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    Re: Would you kill for money?

    Yeah...i mean fish, are you serious?

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    Re: Would you kill for money?

    That's the point isn't it, how much and what. For most people its a sliding scale and at some point along it they will say no. Some people like Buddhists would probably stop very earily on, some people later. However I doubt anyone would say they would kill and unnamed thing for an unnamed amount, "a lot" to you might be very little for me.

    So you didn't mind a fish, how about a cat? How about if it was YOUR cat.

    There is a very nice Outer limits episode, where this stranger turn up on at the door with a button, and tells the lady she will be given a million dollars if she presses the button however if she does someone she does not know will die, and she has 24 hours to decide. She presses it, is given the money and told to enjoy it, when she asks what will happen to the button she is told, it will be reprogrammed and but she should not worry it will be given to someone she downs not know.

    Other people make life and death decisions all the time, like doctors, by helping one person insted of another that may result in a persons death by in action. People in the Military kill people for money all the time, however they can justify it as being necessary for safety of the country.

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    Re: Would you kill for money?

    I think we all know what he means in his opening question!!

    Not a suitable question for these forums i would have thought. Rather distasteful i would say.

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    Re: Would you kill for money?

    I'm inclined to agree - however I question is really one of personal morality.

    As was said earlier, many people are paid for a job in which they might be legitimately required to take human life, although they remain accountable for their actions; in the case of military personnel, it is within the rulesd of engagement, and ultimately to the rules and practices of war described in the Geneva conventions. For civilain police, it is again in accordance with the rules of engagementset by senior police officeers, who themselves are accountable under law. And neither military personnel or civilian police are 'guns for hire' - tey are authorised to use lethal force in the lawful performance of their duties. They are not paid to kill, they are paid to do a job in which they are authorised, under specific circumstances, to kill - they get no personal reward for the killing itself.

    So the question here - it seems to me - affects mercenary or contract killing - where it is seen as a business trnsaction - and that is no more or less than any other criminal activity - can your moral responsibility be overcome (whether it is fraud, theft, or murder) be overcome if the price is right?
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    Re: Would you kill for money?

    Quote Originally Posted by Vetro View Post
    Theres no real scenario to this, lets just say theres lots of money involved.
    No. There are several other far more important and serious things I would kill for; such as a roll in the hay with Beyonce....

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    Re: Would you kill for money?

    Quote Originally Posted by santa claus View Post
    No. There are several other far more important and serious things I would kill for; such as a roll in the hay with Beyonce....
    too true, too true...

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    Re: Would you kill for money?

    The question is there to challenge morals nothing more.

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    Re: Would you kill for money?

    Id you offer me curly wurly i`ll kill your wife for you

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    Re: Would you kill for money?

    Quote Originally Posted by Vetro View Post
    The question is there to challenge morals nothing more.
    Perhaps, personally though I don't think its a question you should be getting other people to answer definitively if you not willing to put yourself on the line as well. So Vetro how would you react what is your price?

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    Re: Would you kill for money?

    Quote Originally Posted by oolon View Post
    That's the point isn't it, how much and what. For most people its a sliding scale and at some point along it they will say no. Some people like Buddhists would probably stop very earily on, some people later. However I doubt anyone would say they would kill and unnamed thing for an unnamed amount, "a lot" to you might be very little for me.
    Hence why i said theres no particular scenario, i want to challenge your limits. The scenario's there for you to create.

    And yes i would kill a target providing they had taken an 'innocent' life themselves.

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    Re: Would you kill for money?

    Quote Originally Posted by peterb View Post
    ..... can your moral responsibility be overcome (whether it is fraud, theft, or murder) be overcome if the price is right?
    That strikes me as the central issue behind the question.

    There's a comical anecdote attributed To Churchill that goes ....
    Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?"

    Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... "

    Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?"

    Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!"

    Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price."

    That's the core of it. How many of us, if offered a sufficient sum and if we thought we could get away with it, would never, ever, under any circumstances, be prepared to kill another human being (and I'm not talking about soldiers, armed police, self-defence, etc)?

    I'm sure there will be plenty who wouldn't take the money, and they'll no doubt be a lot more who'll say they wouldn't. But there'll be a lot that would, too, IMHO.

    They'll also be those that wouldn't if the "target" were an innocent, such as a child. But there'll be plenty even of those that while they might not be prepared to kill an innocent for money, would have a different stance about, say, a child rapist/murderer.

    Here's an example. What about being paid as a state-employed executioner, carrying out a legally imposed sentence on someone you were absolutely sure was guilty of some heinous offences, like a serial child murderer? The "kill for money" might merely be your salary.

    Personally, I certainly have a "better dead" list of people for whom I would not grieve in the slightest, not even for a nanosecond, if someone punched their ticket, and I also might well be prepared to pin a medal on the ticket-puncher, and buy them a drink. It's not exactly a huge step from that to being prepared to punch their ticket myself, if it were legal to do it. And it's not much of a step from being prepared to do it if it were legal, to being prepared to do it even if it wasn't, if I was convinced I could get away with it.

    So while I never expect to find myself in that position and I don't know what I'd actually do unless I do find myself actually facing the situation, I'm forced to conclude that there are circumstances where I'd be quite prepared to kill for money, and probably some where I wouldn't even need the money. But merely as a paid assassin, on a target that didn't meet my qualification list, no, I wouldn't. I think.

    And here's another issue. If I had a child that needed expensive surgery to live, and someone offered me enough money to pay for that by killing, say, a child murderer, then ......

    But would that be killing for money, or killing to save my child? Because while money was involved, it wouldn't be the motivation, but merely an incidental, a step to my real objective.

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    Re: Would you kill for money?

    Quote Originally Posted by Vetro View Post
    Hence why i said theres no particular scenario, i want to challenge your limits. The scenario's there for you to create.

    And yes i would kill a target providing they had taken an 'innocent' life themselves.
    Good now your joining in I will answer, No I would not kill for money, human or otherwise. However I would kill, I would kill to live (things to eat, starting with plants!), I would kill to protect my family, I would also give me own life to ensure my family was safe. I however would not kill when money alone was the motivator. Money is not a good motivator for me, having enough to live is, needing more isn't.

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    Re: Would you kill for money?

    No. Not after what happened the last couple of times.
    Quote Originally Posted by Bertrand Russell

    The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

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