Davy Jones Award
for horrible heartlessness
Depends on the circumstance. If it was self defence, then probably. If it was cold blooded murder then no, I'd call the police. Blind love like that leads to messed up cases like the moors murderers. I couldn't live with myself knowing I'm just letting someone cause harm to society
Harm to society????laughing out loud.
One person dying will not harm society apart from the emotional 'greef' that the family will experience that will be temporary.
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One person dying. Maybe a wife without her husband, children without their father, and parents without their son, friends with an empty seat at the table, an employer who used to have a partner and a friend, a band without a bass guitar player ...and a SOCIETY who has to look around in public places and wonder which murderer is among them. Suspicion, fear, loss - and the murderer himself is permanently harmed.
People are more than census statistics.
One person dying will not harm society apart from the emotional 'greef' that the family will experience that will be temporary.
Goe di inn ah fier.
...so you wouldn't have reported that Boston Marathon Bomber to the authorities: unlike that member of society .
ISIS raped babies , you know. We know where you stand then, re. terrorists.
I would say that you have obviously never lost a loved one - but then, you've made it more than obvious that you are incapable of having loved ones, being a psychopath, nothing but an empty, soulless, heartless husk of a person.
Also, it's spelled "grief".
No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
-John Donne
Rapeyapey
Possible poe indicator?
Rapeyapey
Not related to me. ;)
"One person dying will not harm society"
Um... Isn't society MADE up of persons? I would agree that in most cases, a single death will not greatly alter the course of history, but as society is not something separate from the persons who make it up, then harm to one is harm to the other by definition.
That's like saying I can cut off one of your fingers, but you can still drive, so I haven't harmed YOU.
Holmes and Rahe disagree. Death of a spouse, close family member, or close friend rank very highly on the Holmes and Rahe stress scale. If you would find imprisonment in the past year to be a significant source of stress for you personally, then you would certainly find the death of a close family member in the past year to weigh on you a lot. And given how much stress we face on an everyday basis, that might well be enough to push you over the edge and develop stress-related illnesses.
So not only are you a heartless bastard, as any number of other commenters will agree, but you're also incredibly, scientifically wrong in your assessment of loss and the resultant grief. Your Randian analysis of society as being merely a collection of discrete, disconnected persons is fantasy, as any expert in the field will demonstrate.
Now that I've gotten the dispassionate, analytical part of my post done, I'd like to kindly tell you to FOAD.
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