Can people instictively kill without remorse?

By shaqarava
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Do you think people, any people, can instictively kill without remorse?  

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  1. 1. Do you think people, any people, can instictively kill without remorse?

    • Hell yeah!!!
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    • Positively sure
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    • Pretty sure
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    • Dunno, never killed before, but I plan to
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    • Dunno, never killed before, and I don't plan to
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    • Probably not
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    • Positively not
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    • Hell no!!!
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shaqarava

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I've been in an intriguing argument with a colleague of mine. My colleague says it's impossible to kill without remorse and that everyone who'd kill would feel guilt or remorse afterwards,

"but if u did kill someone, you would feel guilt for ending another humans existance...you would feel remorse as a natural human reaction, especially as you saw the face and the eyes of the person, whos life you would be ending before they died"

Though it's true that people can feel guilt, it's not human reaction/instinct that makes us feel guilt. I say it is instinctual that we CAN kill without remorse, isn't it in the evolution of all animals?? (even though most if not all animals probably can't be remorseful) I say its society that makes us feel guilty, not natural human reaction, because it is society in which we have been brought up in that teaches us right from wrong. You?re taught that killing is wrong as a child so you grow up knowing it's wrong, thus if you do kill you'd feel guilt believing it is wrong because of what you were taught. (Think I just repeated myself there) If you kill an ant do you feel guilt? No you don't. Why? Cos society does not consider the killing of an ant wrong. Think I?ll repeat what I just said just to stress the point. So if you do kill you might feel guilty because you?re aware of the fact that killing is wrong, from where? From what you've been taught, the rules of the game as it were.

Also, what about in war? Does every person in the coalition, and every armed Iraqi feel guilt when they killed during the war? I don't think so, maybe a few. The American soldiers pictured torturing prisoners don't seem to be feeling guilty or remorseful, yet the results of what they did seemed worse than death. I think I recall seeing on TV that someone claming to be one of the masked people in the pictures said himself he'd rather had died than gone through what happened. Think I went off topic a bit there and think I?m starting to waffle, but the point is humans are more than capable to instinctively killing and even abusing fellow humans without remorse or guilt.

Any how...any thoughts people?

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tiagosilva29

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Yes, it's a fact.

When I was 3 y.o., my parents visited Angola during the civil war.

One evening, through my bedroom window, I saw a couple of guys killing a man, stabbing him, then shot him in the head with an AK-47, and they left the site after.

The reason? Because they could.

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DsnBehind

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When I was 3 y.o., my parents visited Angola during the civil war.

One evening, through my bedroom window, I saw a couple of guys killing a man, stabbing him, then shot him in the head with an AK-47, and they left the site after.

That's very interesting. Must have been very intriguing.

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tiagosilva29

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That's very interesting. Must have been very intriguing.

I was a kid back then, I didn't realise what they were doing. :(

So complex, yet, so primitive.

We tamed beasts, built elaborated homes, exploited the elements, created non-natural components, but still we're animals.

There's no way to escape from that.

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Riz360

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I do believe that instinctively humans are capable of killing but they would feel some sort of remorse, guilt, maybe some less than other but as humans I believe that we are'nt natural killers, we are cpapable of it but remorse is a natural reaction.

But I suppose it also depends on the circumstances

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