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But like real question: Why do people ask these type of questions?

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[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

Back when I was 10 there were some druggies living next to me. I was good friends with their kids. One day when they left their kids there unattended we got into the garage. Long story short, the house burned down. The kids survived, but the parents were never seen after that. Pretty sure they werent home but the timing for their dossapearance was odd.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 hours ago

Not lately.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Reddit: "Women of Reddit, how do I make you give me sex?"

Females of Reddit, what is the sexistest thing a man ever did while having the sexist sex that you have ever sexed?

(emphasis on the "Females" part becuase: maximum neckbeard cringe)

[–] socsa@piefed.social 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Does your mom's ass count?

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Nah I got 2 dads, suck on that.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 3 points 5 hours ago

I will murder pretty much any ass tbh

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

I can't. Got lock jaw. Would a handy suffice?

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

Not yet. Waiting for the Mad Max era of the Trump presidency.

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I had these really annoying ducks near my house and I would shoot at them, but missed a lot. The neighbor’s dog would pop out of the tall grass and LAUGH at me each time. It made me so mad I tried to murder that dog multiple times but he always got away.

[–] Centaur@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yes. But it was completely legal.

[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 16 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I coughed without a mask near an old lady ranting about liberals in a super conservative little town in Texas during COVID.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Well good thing that the virus was a hoax, so the lady was probably fine, amirite?

[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, I wasn't sick at the time. When I was, I stayed home. I just did it to terrify her.

[–] Zeoic@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

It's good that you stay home when sick, but just FYI, you can have covid without realizing it. Roughly 1 in 5 cases never get symptoms but are still contagious. That's one of the reasons lockdowns were so effective. We couldn't just rely on people staying away when they are sick because they might have it without the sickness. Fuck covid

[–] TheV2@programming.dev 4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Am I the only one who is against murder? Why is nobody talking about the immorality behind murder?

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

hey! if you want to ask questions you have to make a post about it!

hey everyone! this guy is trying to cut in line with questions!

we should get him!

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 hours ago

Because bourgeois morality is false. Throw off the chains they have placed on your mind and become a based murderist.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 55 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

So I'll actually answer since I've never shared this even though the post is making a joke.

It's not really murder I'm sure, but it has stuck with me forever. I took care of my grandmother through the end stages of her cancer as some form of "hospice" care. I was the one that gave her morphine when she needed it and essentially within days of starting it she became more and more zombified and then passed away. It happened within roughly a week. It was only after all that did learn about morphine toxicity in the elderly and realized that even though it helped her with the pain I'm pretty sure I "killed" her. :(

[–] dmention7@lemm.ee 44 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

For what it's worth, if i ever find myself elderly with end stage cancer, I would consider it a kindness to be able to go out painlessly and relatively quickly.

[–] cam_i_am@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago

100%. At that point your life is over already. Dose me up on morphine and let me sail away into the void peacefully.

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

'If I'm gonna die, at least I wanna be high.'

- ❤️×💀×🤖

Seriously tho, the only death that could be better is being high in a puppy pit.

[–] Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 8 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

So people with end stage cancer do often deteriorate like that, the morphine is unlikely to have caused her death but it would have definitely made her more comfortable. You did the right thing for your grandma. You didn't speed up her death, you cared for her through a difficult time. Thank you for being there for them.

If this is playing on your mind get in touch with the hospice/ palliative care team who were involved and talk it through with them. They will be happy to help and won't mind you calling at all, even if it is a long time since it happened.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Euthanasia isnt really murder.

I mean if someone has a terminal illness and asked you to give them cyanide and you do, that not really murder.

Sure the law views it differently, but it morally not murder.

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[–] weeeeum@lemmy.world 22 points 21 hours ago

I'm not really sure how it works but I was told I gobbled up my brother as an embryo in the womb. He was yummy.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago

Shyea right, nice try NSA, like I would ever tell you about that time on September 27, 2012, 3:03 am, Jefferson Dr in Bowling Green, Ohio, when I was driving drunk and veered around a corner, slamming into someone walking along the road. Or that the pedestrian is killed instantly and I sped away without calling 9-1-1. You think I’d rat myself out like that?

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 3 points 14 hours ago

Because they're probably honeypot threads created by law enforcement. Or people are just really that stupid. Idk.

[–] LaggySnake@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago
[–] TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 5 points 16 hours ago

Yeah. Threw a little boy, a plumber, and a dog under the front of a boat. Then I said "allow me to demonstrate" because I'm a professor.

[–] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago (5 children)

It's easier and generally more acceptable to ask here than in the grocery store.

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[–] 211@sopuli.xyz 17 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

I've made an inexcusable mistake that caused someone to die. It's been 20-ish years, still not over it. Is anyone even allowed to get over something like that and go on with their lives?

People ask because murderers exist, and if they've served their sentence, they might be willing to answer and have interesting stories?

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 points 5 hours ago

Is anyone even allowed to get over something like that and go on with their lives?

If it was a mistake and you didn't intend to actually kill anyone, then yes I think you're allowed to move on at some point and even forgive yourself for that.

Mistakes happen. Often it's just bad luck. There's no benefit in beating yourself up about it. What happened has happened and there's no going back. Grieving and regretting and feeling bad and such is normal and okay but I'd say 20 years is enough time to start thinking of forgiveness and moving on.

[–] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Its been 20 years. Why not share the story. Its an anonymous forum. Most will assume any stories here are made up. It's therapeutic as fuck, like writing a letter you'll never send. Just giving a perspective most who know you would never give.🍻

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Dunno. Maybe it's genuine curiosity. Maybe they're farming upvotes and believe that something dramatic like such a question will achieve that.

But to answer the question; almost. I came pretty close to murdering somebody. Not out of rage or anything, but out of desperation. A man was attacking my mother, choking her on her leather necklace. My sister grabbed the chopping axe. I grabbed the metal pipe, but then we just froze.

[–] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Oh for fucks sake. You are obviously the psycho here. Who tells a story like that and leaves off whether or not their mom is dead or alive.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Pretty sure if my mom died I'd be too traumatised to talk about it. The whole event already wasn't exactly a small deal, I'd have been permanently devastated if the worst happened.

[–] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Yes I'm a mass murder and so is my family, the skin cells that I shed every day are entitled to the personhood that we afford people! Never mind that the death and shedding of skin cells in natural, normal and everyone does it, we must protect the skin cells!

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 49 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I recently murdered a bowl of mac and cheese. It was premeditated.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 3 hours ago

They could have had a family!

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