If you had a free pass to kill any one person, who would you kill?

[Houseman]

Let's say that the government, the U.N, or even the deity of your choice, gives you a free pass to murder one individual. You have a no-strings-attached license to kill.

Nobody will judge you, nobody will try to get revenge. In fact, you might even get praised for it. You are carrying out an important duty and everybody is on board with it.

Anything you need will be given to you, plane trips, a car, a gun, access to any building you want, whatever you need. You have the full backing of international powers.

You can kill a terrorist, or a leader of a country, or just your upstairs neighbor.

As part of it, you can also gather information on this person, as well as detain and interrogate them. For example, you can have their computers searched. You can publicly expose all of their crimes, if any. That way, you can have a clear conscience that who you are executing absolutely deserves it, if you need that. If during the investigation you decide that the person doesn't deserve death, you can let them go, and decide whether or not to make the information public.

Who would you kill, and why?

Even I have a person in mind, I'll answer after some of you give answers.

 

[Gauche]

Whoever manufactured the pass

 

[Houseman]

Whoever manufactured the pass

The n-word pass?

The Partner Alliance for Safer Schools?

Edit: Oh the "license to kill" pass. Jokes on you, it was approved by committee!

 

[Arnox]

My first thought was the leader of North Korea, but I think it would probably not make a difference. One of his (fucked up) family members will probably take power in his place. Though on the other hand, it might cause a major power struggle, which would be very beneficial and very entertaining to watch too.

Winnie the Pooh is also an attractive target as well. In fact, maybe even moreso than NK's greatest fatass.

 

[Vendor-Lazarus]

It would have to be a more Majestic number than that for me. Like 12. A single individuals death wouldn't change anything on the grander scale. I could go for Klaus Schwab or George Soros, but they're almost dead anyway, and just fronts. Likewise, Kim or Xi wouldn't change the now established system there.

I could go for choosing to kill god. If they exist, I have to become a god to kill them. If they don't exist, I kill the idea of god.

There's also the hypothetical of going back in time to kill Hitler or Marx/Engels or Giovanni Gentile. But depending on the systems at play, it could screw up the future worse, or be meaningless as someone else takes their place.

 

[Houseman]

My first thought was the leader of North Korea, but I think it would probably not make a difference. One of his (fucked up) family members will probably take power in his place. Though on the other hand, it might cause a major power struggle, which would be very beneficial and very entertaining to watch too.

Winnie the Pooh is also an attractive target as well.

Having your predecessor get assassinated might convince the successor that he needs to make a serious change, or else he might suffer the same fate. I think many people would choose dictators, warlords, leaders of gangs, or other people like that. If this "license to kill" lottery happens regularly, the likelihood that such a person would be chosen would be high.

It would be like a "Death Note" being in the hands of a random, normal person. I would think that most people would act in the name of "justice". This should strike fear in the hearts of "evildoers".

Would you be "evil" in such a world where anyone can so easily bring you to justice?

Same goes for @Vendor-Lazarus

 

[Arnox]

Would you be "evil" in such a world where anyone can so easily bring you to justice?

Maybe, but you just gave me a single pass, not a multi pass. And would the leaders know that or not? In any case, if they feared another attack, they'll probably just scurry off into hiding. People like that, they're not interested in power if they're forced to use it responsibly.

 

[Houseman]

Maybe, but you just gave me a single pass, not a multi pass.

Of course, but you're probably not going to be the only one in history to get such a pass. In fact, as lord of the hypothetical, I declare that a pass is given out to someone once a year! It's like The Purge, but different!

 

[Arnox]

Of course, but you're probably not going to be the only one in history to get such a pass. In fact, as lord of the hypothetical, I declare that a pass is given out to someone once a year! It's like The Purge, but different!

Actually, a further thought comes to me. If the above scenario is true, then that would mean nobody would want to be in positions of power, period, because even if they would do their best to be responsible, they don't want some crazy rando killing them anyway.

 

[Houseman]

then that would mean nobody would want to be in positions of power, period,

Good, that's how it should be! People in power should fear the people whose lives they meddle with.

 

[Arnox]

Good, that's how it should be! People in power should fear the people whose lives they meddle with.

So who's gonna lead then if nobody at all wants to do it?

 

[Houseman]

So who's gonna lead then if nobody at all wants to do it?

Whoever is forced to do it. People should be voted into office against their will.

 

[Arnox]

Whoever is forced to do it. People should be voted into office against their will.

Sounds a little too much like actual slavery and maybe even condemning an innocent person just because everyone said so. And also, who gets to vote? What about the victim, er, candidate's family?

 

[Houseman]

Sounds a little too much like actual slavery and maybe even condemning an innocent person just because everyone said so. And also, who gets to vote? What about the victim, er, candidate's family?

If they can draft us into the army, we can draft them into office.

My pick for who I would interrogate, expose, and execute:

A certain redditor (who will remain nameless because he probably is the type to google his own name and perceive this as a death threat).
This redditor is not quite a powermod, but someone who runs multiple subs, and who has multiple accounts who are all mods on those subs. This individual obsessively posts hate and manufactures outrage against his political and ideological opponents. It's like a job to him. The world would be a better place if him and all his sockpuppets were exposed, and if he were then banned from the internet.

Would I really kill a redditor if I were in a hypothetical world where God gave me a free pass? Well, if God is willing to entrust me with such a task, then who am I to refuse?

 

[Arnox]

If they can draft us into the army, we can draft them into office.

My pick for who I would interrogate, expose, and execute:

A certain redditor (who will remain nameless because he probably is the type to google his own name and perceive this as a death threat).
This redditor is not quite a powermod, but someone who runs multiple subs, and who has multiple accounts who are all mods on those subs. This individual obsessively posts hate and manufactures outrage against his political and ideological opponents. It's like a job to him. The world would be a better place if him and all his sockpuppets were exposed, and if he were then banned from the internet.

Would I really kill a redditor if I were in a hypothetical world where God gave me a free pass? Well, if God is willing to entrust me with such a task, then who am I to refuse?

Except drafting was massively hated in the 60s and 70s and was later phased out entirely for a volunteer service that worked WAY better.

As to this Redditor, that seems like a very silly choice when compared to literal mass murderers. Unless this is just a personal choice.

 

[Houseman]

As to this Redditor, that seems like a very silly choice when compared to literal mass murderers. Unless this is just a personal choice.

Somebody else will get those big guys. It's the little guys that get overlooked and excused.

 

[Arnox]

Somebody else will get those big guys. It's the little guys that get overlooked and excused.

Regardless, you think some social media manipulation justifies assassination?

 

[Houseman]

Regardless, you think some social media manipulation justifies assassination?

Yep. Hatemongering ticks me off.

 

[Arnox]

Yep. Hatemongering ticks me off.

And what would God think about that attitude of yours?

 

[Houseman]

And what would God think about that attitude of yours?

In this hypothetical, he is giving me his full blessing, just as he gave others the authority to kill in the Bible.

Outside of the hypothetical, I would never kill anyone, nor do I think he deserves to die, but hatemongering still ticks me off, and I'm sure it ticks off God as well.

 

[Signa]

I only get one? Well, anyone that's obviously guilty of treason and will never be tried for it would be a good start in my book.