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Would you kill an innocent person if you thought it might mean saving a dozen other people?

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:40, 95 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
Nope.

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:41, Reply)
But you support intervention in Syria?

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:45, Reply)
ZING!!!!!!!!

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:48, Reply)
It's a corker isn't it?

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:50, Reply)
Yep.
Not me doing the killing.
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:53, Reply)
So you would support someone else killing an innocent person if you thought it might mean saving a dozen other people?

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:53, Reply)
typical lefty, scared to get his wringing hands dirty

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:54, Reply)
Ha!

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:55, Reply)
I don't support anyone killing an innocent person.
Military action isn't about killing innocent people.
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:56, Reply)
Try telling the Americans that.
*double seats*
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:59, Reply)
Yes it is.
Name a military campaign in which no innocent people died.

Go on, you only have to name one.
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:01, Reply)
The Cornish Rebellion of 1497!

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:01, Reply)
I weren't taalkin ter yew, Jethro.

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:09, Reply)


(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:13, Reply)
My SpaceWolfs against Supermatt's Chaos Warriors.
Not a single innocent died in that great battle.
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:29, Reply)
Anyone who thinks military action isn't about killing is gullible.

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:01, Reply)
But, arguably, it is an inevitable consequence.

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:02, Reply)
Do I know any of them? If not, no.

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:42, Reply)
I do it every fortnight on the off chance
Just to "do my bit"
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:42, Reply)
I'd kill you
hth xx
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:42, Reply)
He said innocent
Batts simply has to be guilty of a whole host of things
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:44, Reply)
Infidel!

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:48, Reply)
I'd like an example please

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:42, Reply)
with a hammer

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:44, Reply)
I'm in

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:44, Reply)

A runaway train is about to strike five people walking along the track. You can reroute the train and save the five people. But you will wind up killing one person walking on the other track.
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:44, Reply)
Easy

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:44, Reply)
Why are people walking on the tracks? They must have a deathwish.

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:45, Reply)
Charles Bronson is a keen train spotter

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:46, Reply)
Charles Bronsonlolz

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:47, Reply)
^ Deathwish II

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:48, Reply)
WTB

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:49, Reply)
squash that muther fucker flat

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:45, Reply)
Bit of a silly place to walk.

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:45, Reply)
Oh for crying out loud. It's merely an example of a moral dilemma.

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:46, Reply)
But there will be huge delays, and probably a need for a replacement bus service.
Imagine if that bus had a typo on it as well.

You are a selfish, evil man.
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:47, Reply)
That's what his wife says.

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:57, Reply)
But it's totally unrealistic

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:48, Reply)
^upset^

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:09, Reply)
How the hell is the random person supposed to know how to reroute the train?
Those things are well complicated, all those buttons and nobs, you might kill even more people.
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:24, Reply)
A dozen people are waiting for life saving transplants
Battered is going to off the first healthy person he sees to save them.

That'll be the angle his defence team will take.
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:44, Reply)
A "Harvest Festival"

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:45, Reply)
When will there be one... for the world

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:56, Reply)
this logic suggest that we should keep killing people until the transplant waiting list has been abolished

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:46, Reply)
We should all have a clone of ourselves at home so we can harvest organs if we need them
It would be like that really shit movie.
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:52, Reply)
Space Pirates?

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:58, Reply)
if you say so

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:05, Reply)

kill bum
person bumhole
people bumholes
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:45, Reply)
A finger up the bum is worth two in the hole

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:46, Reply)
I'm happy to kill innocent people simply for lolz.

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:46, Reply)
*signs up for newsletter*

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:46, Reply)

newsletter bumhole
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:47, Reply)
Finally. A newsletter that doesn't contain Kunt & The Gang.

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:47, Reply)
Hahaha

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:48, Reply)
I was hoping they'd be killed in the first issue :(

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:48, Reply)
No One is Innocent

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:46, Reply)
Not even those smoothie guys?

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:47, Reply)

smoothie bumhole
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:47, Reply)
Could I ask you to stop this, please?
It is not your best work.
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:49, Reply)

work bumhole







ok
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:49, Reply)
NEVER STOP SHITPANTS!!!!!

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:53, Reply)
I FUCKING OWN IT THAT'S WHY IN 2013 FUCK YOU BUMHOLE

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:54, Reply)
YEAH YOU FUCKING DO!!!!!

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:58, Reply)
FREE THE HERMAN'S HERMITS ONE!!!!

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:05, Reply)
Depends when you ask me.
Some days, I could quite cheerfully stove in the head of any number of 'innocent' people, merely because their very presence irritates the fuck out of me.

Today, not so much.

I'm waiting for the first 'the needs of the many' reference.
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:52, Reply)
There's a bloke like that here.
On the rare occasion he's in the office it's never to do anything that has anything to do with me but his mere presence gets my blood up.
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:03, Reply)
What do we know about the other people
what if one of the dozen is a serial killer, so by saving their life you would inadvertently kill many others...
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:54, Reply)
I turned out the one who got killed was close to finding a cure for cancer and all

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:56, Reply)
bumhole cancer?

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:57, Reply)
Deadly bumhole cancer

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:57, Reply)
That Battered is a right bastard
now he has condemned us all to deadly bumhole cancer just to fulfil his sick murder fantasies
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:00, Reply)
The tastiest of all the cleft cancers.

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:57, Reply)
I'd kill a dozen innocent people to save one John Venables/Myra Hindey/Maxine Car/Fred West

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:55, Reply)
Wow you really hate your children

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:56, Reply)
In fairness, I think we all do.

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:07, Reply)
I don't know,
I'm quite fond of young Skeletor.
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:12, Reply)
I prefer young Nausicaa

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:19, Reply)
if ever a strikethrough opp cried out for BUMHOLE
then this is it
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:23, Reply)

f ever a strikethrough opp
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:26, Reply)
I kill you!

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:57, Reply)

b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post2074115
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:00, Reply)
There was this show that was well good called "Crisis Command" or something like that,
where you had to make descions that esculated, like you'd start off with a plane thats lost contact, and then it'll turn out that terrorists have the plan, then they crash it into the houses of parliment, and then that collapses the thames into the tube network.
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:59, Reply)
Just caught a bit of the local radio news.
Picture a really thick-sounding Bristolian accent, complaining "They're treating us like we're some kind of idiots. Yeah, some of us are, but some of us ain't"

Insightful, I'm sure you'll agree.
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:04, Reply)
MASSIVE CLANGER!

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:12, Reply)
actual guffaw

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:15, Reply)
?

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:18, Reply)
I'd kill someone for merely blocking the pavement at a bus stop and fixing me with a bovine stare as they do so.
So in essence, yes.
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:04, Reply)
I'd kill six million of the cunts if it gave me some more of the old 'lebensraum'.

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:11, Reply)
Don't forget the Gypsies and Russians.

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:12, Reply)
Not to mention the flids and queers

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:15, Reply)
Cher's follow up zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:18, Reply)
They shut down though.
You'll have to make do with Ikea.
(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:13, Reply)
I'd kill this thread if I thought it might mean saving a dozen people from fucking off to find something else to do.

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:13, Reply)
The BUMHOLE thread did a reasonable job of killing it.

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:18, Reply)
What even me?

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 12:24, Reply)

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