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Have you ever killed a man?
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a_gee_dizzle lemmy.ca a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca
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Serious responses only please

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Donjuanme lemmy.world Donjuanme@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-15
#2 · Quote Reply

Nope

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infinitevalence discuss.online infinitevalence@discuss.online
Joined: 2023-06-14
#3 · Quote Reply

No but I have buried one in the woods.

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a_gee_dizzle lemmy.ca a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-10-27
#4 · Quote Reply

Nope

Sounds like exactly what you’d say if you did kill a man though

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toomanypancakes piefed.world toomanypancakes@piefed.world
Joined: 2025-07-09
#5 · Quote Reply

No, but I have had a man say "you're killing me" to me if that counts

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a_gee_dizzle lemmy.ca a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-10-27
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No, but I have had a man say "you're killing me" to me if that counts

For the purposes of this discussion that does count, yes

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nightmare786 leminal.space nightmare786@leminal.space
Joined: 2025-02-17
#7 · Quote Reply

nice try copper

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actionjbone sh.itjust.works actionjbone@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-09-12
#8 · Quote Reply

What kind of man are we talking about

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Smuuthbrane sh.itjust.works smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-13
#9 · Quote Reply

Serious.

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Asafum lemmy.world Asafum@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-20
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Someone said I did.

I said to a coworker "I got in trouble a long time ago for identity theft. I was a different person back then."

He said: ughh... You're killing me.

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a_gee_dizzle lemmy.ca a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-10-27
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Serious.

Thank you for following the instructions

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a_gee_dizzle lemmy.ca a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-10-27
#12 · Quote Reply

What kind of man are we talking about

The kind who are capable of engaging you im hand-to-hand combat

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stoicEuropean lemmy.ml stoicEuropean@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-02-27
#13 · Quote Reply

From a mathematical point of view: No, I have not.

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southsamurai (he/him/pronoun agnostic) sh.itjust.works southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-19
#14 · Quote Reply

No?

Probably?

Came close a few times though, and one of those I left laying where they were and have no idea what happened to them, just that there were no news reports about a dead guy in the road

Sometimes life throws you into situations where there's no good choices, and you have to choose what you consider the lesser evil. Like elections and some drunk or drugged asshole coming at you with intent. My choice is always going to be to preserve myself, even at the expense of the asshole coming at me.

Now women and children? Hundreds of those! (Hey, don't forget what c/ this is. At least part of an answer is going to be shitty)

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dragnucs lemmy.ml dragnucs@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2021-09-14
#15 · Quote Reply

nice try copper

Option one:
People have already killed and served their sentence.
Option two:
Road accident.

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SaveTheTuaHawk lemmy.ca SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-03-07
#16 · Quote Reply

No, not today.

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DupaCycki lemmy.world DupaCycki@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-08-17
#17 · Quote Reply

Hmm, tough one. It was a genderfluid person, so I'd have to use a ouija board to ask if they were a man at the time of me killing them.

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harrison_fnord reddthat.com harrison_fnord@reddthat.com
Joined: 2026-01-06
#18 · Quote Reply

The kind who are capable of engaging you im hand-to-hand combat

In that case, no!

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a_gee_dizzle lemmy.ca a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-10-27
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No? Probably? Came close a few times though, and one of those I left laying where they were and have no idea what happened to them, just that there were no news reports about a dead guy in the road Sometimes life throws you into situations where there's no good choices, and you have to choose what you consider the lesser evil. Like elections and some drunk or drugged asshole coming at you with ...

Came close a few times though, and one of those I left laying where they were and have no idea what happened to them

What happened?

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a_gee_dizzle lemmy.ca a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-10-27
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From a mathematical point of view: No, I have not.

How do you kill someone from a mathematical point of view (as opposed to a no mathematical point of view)

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a_gee_dizzle lemmy.ca a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-10-27
#21 · Quote Reply

In that case, no!

So youre saying youve killed someone else that isnt a man as per the above definition?

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harrison_fnord reddthat.com harrison_fnord@reddthat.com
Joined: 2026-01-06
#22 · Quote Reply

So youre saying youve killed someone else that isnt a man as per the above definition?

I did not kill a man that was capable of hand to hand combating me.

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southsamurai (he/him/pronoun agnostic) sh.itjust.works southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-19
#23 · (edited) Quote Reply

Came close a few times though, and one of those I left laying where they were and have no idea what happened to them What happened?

I was driving the speed limit and a guy decided that wasn't fast enough. Ripped around me honking, flipped me off and I thought that was it.

Instead, he came back and crossed into my lane so I had to run off the road. Luckily, it was into a fairly flat section so all it did was bump the gas shutoff thing. But, the switch to cut that back in was in the rear, so I had to get out to activate it.

While I was doing that, the guy came back again, screeched to a stop and jumped out with a knife. He came at me. Unfortunately for him, we had been training vs knives at the dojo I trained with.

He got me on the arm a couple of times, but I disarmed him and the knife dropped. He started going after it, and despite me screaming at him to just fucking stop, he wouldn't.

So, I kept him from being able to reach the knife. By the time I had ahold of him, my temper had snapped and I used more than minimum necessary force to make sure he couldn't keep coming. Part of that was slamming him in the road face first, and some kicking.

When I left, he was breathing and in the recovery position, and that was that.

Dude was most likely on meth. He certainly had the usual visual effects of long term meth use, and was talking nonsense. Random strings of words, not just weird shit. Only coherency was stuff like "fuck you up".

I've never had to go that hard with anyone that wasn't drunk or drugged out. Anyone else does the usual exchange of blows, or (after I trained for a while) realized they weren't going to get anything done, and backed off. But, that's the only person that I know wasn't going to be able to get up on their own. The other ones, while they got hurt, I could tell with a quick check that they would be able to walk away eventually. That guy was in bad shape.

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a_gee_dizzle lemmy.ca a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-10-27
#24 · Quote Reply

I was driving the speed limit and a guy decided that wasn't fast enough. Ripped around me honking, flipped me off and I thought that was it. Instead, he came back and crossed into my lane so I had to run off the road. Luckily, it was into a fairly flat section so all it did was bump the gas shutoff thing. But, the switch to cut that back in was in the rear, so I had to get out to activate it. W...

God damn

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southsamurai (he/him/pronoun agnostic) sh.itjust.works southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-19
#25 · Quote Reply

God damn

That was one of many things I said as well.

Life is a trip!

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folaht lemmy.ml folaht@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-09-01
#26 · (edited) Quote Reply

I have, but he's known to have hanged himself with bedsheets from his bunk bed in prison,
so it's a well-kept secret.

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