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What would you kill for?

To protect people I love.

Jane, 60
West Linn
, OR

I would kill to protect someone I love, if it were a kill or be killed situation for that person. Outside of that, I'm not sure what else I'd kill for. I have to admit there's a possibility I'd kill in retaliation/revenge of a murder, but that

would probably be tempered by attempts at understanding the crime and respect/fear of the law.

I also have less of a problem killing an animal, if it poses a possible threat to people around me. I recently killed a black widow in my shed, and even though I love insects and bugs, this one had to die for the threat it could pose to my wife and future son. My father gave me this concept -growing up I watched him kill a baby diamondback snake he found

Jesse, 24
Bowie
, MD

I honestly don't think I could kill anyone. It is hard to say when you aren't in a "kill of be killed" kind of situation... but I know I would do everything in my power to protect my son if it came down to it.

Maggie, 20
Sandwich
, IL

Depends on what I had to kill.....Right now I would kill for a vacation...!!!!

Lindy, 42
Austin
, MN

Nothing, at this particular moment.

Karen, 20
Marshelltown/Ames
, IA

My life or of the live’s of my loved one’s. I would not hesitate to kill. I hope that never enter’s into my life that I would have to kill.

Maggie, 20
Sandwich
, IL

I cant imagine being in a situation where I would have to make that type of decision. Even in a life threatening situation, I would try to avoid it all costs, manuvering through all other outlets first. Perhaps being cunning and sly does not cut the mustard in such a predicament. Yikes!

Tina, 31
Medford
, MA

Freedom from a threat against my life.

Alias Irrelevante

I don’t think I would kill for anything. Maybe, once my baby is born, I would kill for him/her if he/she were in danger. I think that mother/child bond thing is pretty intense!

Susan, 31
Chicago
, IL

I’d only kill if someone was threatening my life seriously, or someone very close to me’s life. Otherwise, nothing is worth killing and ruining your life over. I’m not a violent person. Never have been.

Aurora, 17
Montreal, Quebec CANADA

Chocolate. But In reality I don’t think I could do it. Maybe if my life or my family’s life was threaten. But I sure hope it never comes down to that.

Janet, 42
E. Brunswick
, NJ

My life. The life of a loved one. My freedom.

Firelady, 22
Dallas
, TX

I hope I would not kill from hate. (In my cosmos extermination is not killing.) I might kill for love.

Jill, 59
Saylorsburg
, PA

Right now I’d kill for a chocolate bar.But to actually kill someone... I don’t think I could do it for anything. Unless it was to protect an innocent person who was being threatened and it was in self-defense. Especially one of my nieces or nephews.

Laura, 35
Lowell
, MA

Nothing I hope. Although I have never been in the position to defend myself or others from a threat. I'd like to think I'd outsmart or wound a person rather than kill.

Also, I've never killed an animal, but as a meat eater I am certainly complicit

Felicia, 34
Lowell
, MA

What have you got?

Anthony, 25
Baton Rouge
, LA

a steak. or a coat. No, I’d kill for my family or for someone I loved.

Jaden, 21
Brampton, Ontario CANADA

I would have to say i would kill for my freedom (but only freedom for myself not for my country). I would kill if it came down to someone saying "Kill me or I will kill you." I have never been put into a situation that calls for me to kill someone, but those are a few of the reasons I could think of.

Kate, 19
Bellingham
, WA

Nothin’. I don’t think anything is worth killing for.

Jeremy, 13
Highlands Ranch
, CO

Eternal happiness, wealth and bliss. Although it depends on whom I would have to kill. I would kill my brother for no real reason in particular.

Shanna, 15
Cardiff ENGLAND

Nothing.

Tracy, 24
Ocean City
, NJ

nothing, but if the question was who, kristen.

Angela, 16
Aiken
, SC

My fiancee.

Nicole
Elk Grove, CA

In a perfect world, I’d kill anyone who hurt my child. But then, that already wouldn’t be a perfect world - would it?

Fisch, 45
Preston
, CT

Only the life of another. People who kill for money or fame or power are quite possibly the people I fear the most. With that little regard for human life, what good are they? Unfortunately, I dread reading Anthony’s answer at this moment ;)

Amy, 23
New Orleans
, LA

only out of self-defense, I believe. . .

mothmc, 35
Los Angeles
, LA

Yesterday / Tomorrow