Not just uncaught murderers, there are a lot of people who have killed without legally being considered murderers.
People who killed people in accidents such as driving accidents or hunting accidents
People who killed in self defense
Soldiers who killed enemy soldiers
Executioners
Police officers who have killed on duty
Doctors and nurses who have made mistakes that accidentally killed patients
Yeah. There judicial/extrajudicial murders. There is different levels of manslaughter / accidental killings and such. Then there are the different degrees of murder. Even the mislabeling of products hsve brought “manslaughter” charges…
Anyway, yeah, many many people are either directly, or indirectly related/responsible for someone’s death.
In a sense, by levels of separation, I am indirectly responsible for a couple different people’s death…
Its not something that someone would put blame on me, I mean, I used to party with a lot of people, these people died while “partying”… not while around me, or because of me, but I didnt discourage the “partying” these folks were doing.
Old guys who killed fiddy men
In my younger years, I knew many people who killed others.
I’m associates (he’s a friend of a friend) of a guy who did Manslaughter Under the Influence.
He’s a prick, but that’s unrelated to that, just right-wing
I dunno, it takes a type.
Knew a guy online who was part of a game guild and regularly told a teenager to go kill himself for not healing him on time during raids.
One day the Kid shot himself.
The guy was a full on asshole in rl, much older than the kid, had a family and a job and told himself and everyone that he wasn’t at fault cuz the kid was not mentally stable.
Like dude, regardless of someone’s mental health he is a bully with an anger problem and leaned into unleashing it on a young kid.
I’m pretty sure in Canada it’s illegal to encourage suicide. Even if it’s legal, it’s still a shitty thing to do
I’m not sure they’re unrelated.
Man was high on a drug cocktail and then decided to play chicken with a friend of his, he hates himself for it
Wait, is this a metaphore for billionaire CEOs?
I have actually met, spoken to, and joked with convicted murderers. And people who committed far more heinous crimes.
I have a very interesting work history.
The fact of the matter is, someone who has murdered another — beyond a shadow of a doubt, I don’t mean to include those falsely convicted — does not necessarily mean to kill YOU. Unless they’re a psycho or something, most killers have killed because of some circumstance that put another person in the way of their life. I’m not saying they absolutely had to kill the person. Just that had the circumstances been different, they wouldn’t have necessarily killed someone at all. Sexual predators are different. They target their victims and set up the circumstances, in most cases. But killers? Not necessarily a threat to you, unless you are necessarily a threat to them. Even serial killers. Serial killers just have a body count. Most of them don’t want to kill everyone.
Yup, I know someone who was in a car accident and the other driver was killed
I have killed someone. My mother. It was intentional, legal and sanctioned. She was at the end of her life, suffering from Alzheimers and her entire family was present. I volunteered, as her only living child, to pull the plug. And I did. Did I kill someone? Yes. Was it the best thing to do at the time? Yes. Do you wonder if that’s a good way to go out of this world? Probably. Would you be wrong? Yes.
Another good example of killing without it being murder
When I was younger my grandmother died of cancer. She wanted to pass at home and we lived with her.
For months she just declined, until she was bed-bound in the living room, having carers and family members feed her, clean her after she pooped on herself, sometimes randomly screaming in pain, having nightmares, and was largely incoherent. In the last week she didn’t have the strength to eat and her doctors told us to just stop feeding her. She had a death rattle that lasted for days and echoed through the house every time she breathed, until finally something just gave out.
It was not dignified. It was not peaceful. It was deeply traumatizing. I wish we could cut her suffering short somehow – for us as much as her.I was told that once the plug is pulled, it’s not just some flatline and quiet sadness. The human body, regardless of its condition, does not like being deprived of oxygen and spends some time physically revolting before finally giving in. Apparently it’s horrific, but I haven’t witnessed it myself.
Significantly more likely if you live in the USA. Not so much in big parts of the rest of the world.
And the Untied States is the only country in the western world that still has executions
Yeah. I was thinking for the UK it’s highly unlikely a cop has killed someone here. We do follow America into war and I’ve got a few soldier friends who likely killed people, but our soldiers seem to talk about it less than American ones.
smh, your soldiers don’t want to write books about how terrible warmongering made them feel so they can get that kovie deal?
wack
Not sure why you’re trying to say.
Same with America. Despite TV/Movie Copaganda, most cops go their entire careers without pulling their weapons, and certainly without firing it.
The most likely American citizen to have killed is a military member.
You have a whole lot more military than all other countries too making it more likely you meet a killer.
The US isn’t even in the top 50 countries for murders per capita.
at the city-level some are comparable though
nashville/st.louis/new orleans last i bothered looking up the statistics
No one is talking about cities here.
Do you count “gave an old person COVID and they died”? Then absolutely for sure.
Met a few ex terrorists. Northern Ireland is cool.
I definitely have. I’m 43 and people have been randomly coming up to me and telling me their deepest, darkest secrets since I was 12 like I’m some kind of walking confessional booth.
Do you inspire trust this much ?
The candy shop guy where I grew up was apparently a Serbian specops deserter of the Yugoslavian war.
So yeah, probs.
I’ve known several people in the military, who saw combat and have confirmed kills. Half my family, basically.
Yes. I used to live with a guy who worked for a penitentiary. He had inmates over who were on leave. I’ve met people who killed their parents in cold blood and had dinner with them.
…or someone who killed themselves…
