I feel the same, I don't think I could ever kill. It's not in my nature. I'm generally a really nice person that will wait until I have read the book to judge the cover so to speak. Maybe the people that find it easy to kill have it in their nature. The way they're brought up and the people they know make them think that we're all pretty much animals anyway. It's only society that makes us think otherwise, because one animal can eat another without any conscience over what they are doing. Much like a killer can see humans as an animal that is further up the evolutionary scale, so killing another is not a great deal for them.

Much to ponder...

I thought of another example to examine. Take the case of the cast of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Now, here is a team of ninja with weapons moreso designed to stun or put down an enemy. Only Leo and Raph have actual blades which could inflict serious bloody injury. And, yet, they never shed blood in the series except when it's some gruesome monstrosity. And, even then, it is not seen as red blood but some other color ooze like slime. A "hero" using deadly swords but not visually inflicting any serious injury or death. How does that work?

Ohh You used the word blood :O, and Guess what I hate violence and Blood really! I am scared of blood yikes!, OK the truth is out im a big ol softy with a dark imagination who can not even bring herself to kill a spider because it has a life too ;).

(Exception Crane flies because they are evil)

Posh :P.

What exactly is a crane fly? Like a may fly or dragonfly?

I like hearing how big of a softy you are:) Makes me smile.

Becs:P

Its what we call Daddy long legs UGH I have an unusual fear of them turns me into a nut job haha :P.

Well there is a story to that but heh wont bore you with details Hehe.

Hmm, 'wonders if this is a "brainy would like to hear the charming details" or "brainy would want to cover his ears because the story is either disturbing or more privacy oriented for couples themselves" story:P

How do you compare a fly to a daddy longlegs? Have you seen the Preying Mantis-es EasytoSay has in Australia??:P They are scary huge and red! Now, that's a terrifying bug! I hope the UK daddy longlegs aren't bigger than they are here. We get them in damp basements...and then the spiders feed on 'em. They seek out darkness and moisture...ehem, darkness and moisture, oh queen of the dark:P

I used to fear the longlegs as a kid and a teenager...now they just creep me out a little. I don't like bugs because of their thin lil fast-moving legs and fear of infection/poison. So, if it's like a grasshopper or something without any risk of bites or stings, I can touch it. I seem more afraid of flying bugs lately. Hornets/Wasps especially. And, of course, nowawdays mosquitoes are more dangerous. So, now I fear them a bit, too.

Couldn't tell you...I can't kill anything. Then again, think if someone I cared about was threatened it would be just 'instinct' to protect them any way I can. But until that happens (and I really hope it never does), I couldn't tell you for sure.

Hmm...but thinking on it...vengence...about the same thing. Someone you love is killed, you want to see those people who did it punished...That's the only way I could. Cause senceless killing I could never do. Unless I was a giant robot...but since I'm not, eh

I will tell you if you ask and its not a shocking *covering your ears* story haha.

We've heard the phrase, "Every man has his price." It's true of killing too and everyone has the capacity to do the deed. I'm not advocating random acts of violence and I'd prefer to stay away from it as much as possible, but we all kill everyday for our own survival. What did you eat today? I don't care if you're a carnivore or a vegetarian, you have to kill to eat (or someone has to do it for you). Years ago, they hooked a tree up to an EEG and then held up an axe and the tree reacted. Biologically, a plant is just as much a living thing as a human or a cow. It eats, it reproduces, it gives off waste, it breaths, it has a circulatory system. Who are we to say this is ok to kill, but this is not? Or even worse, eating a plant is not killing a living thing. I would argue it's worse cause with an animal we at least kill it first, but with a plant you often eat it alive!

So you do it every day and you are comfortable with it cause you don't call it killing. You call it cooking, or buying groceries. "That which we call a rose..." ! Well this is how the military trains - they call it something else. It's a target, not a man. It's a weapons system. Then they take the soldiers and they drill them over and over again until they remove the objection each of you expressed and no longer see it as killing, but as taking down a threat. Bon Apetite, everyone

I don't know if I can answer your questions but it did bring to mind some of the military training they do especially in other countries. I know they train soldiers at a very young age. The younger the better because they don't think for themselves and do as they are told. As Jongault mentioned, it is the psychology behind the training that allows them to see their target as something less than human. There is probably some good research out there on this topic. How did Hitler get all those young boys to do his bidding. It is also a mob mentality that goes on. If one is doing it then they are all doing it and anyone who is different or out of line will be frowned upon or killed as well.
Taking the question back to our society..I would say you would have to be put in a protective situation such as protecting your children or family to take another life or you have to be numb to those moral thoughts. Psychotic. Good luck with your character.

Where are you?.

Ok this aint funny you ok?...Miss you loads :(((.

Why would you want to be comfortable with killing in the first place? Seems when someone does, they cease to be human, for isn't being human having compassion? I could never take another life, and I wouldn't want to

It's about the concept in stories, Night Dreamer. In any battle between good and evil, there comes the decision...Kill? Allow to live and plague again? Or hope that some other form of authority will handle the matter "justly". Sometimes, the only way to end something's torment is to kill it. Thus, I ask. How does a "hero" become comfortable with killing? Or, a soldier, for that matter.

In that case, a real hero wouldn't become comfortable with killing. He might have to, but to become comfortable would take away that part of humanity that made him a hero in the first place. He might have to kill, but a hero would still dislike doing just that

Or might a real hero be somewhere in the middle? Wouldn't a genuine hero know when to kill and when not to kill? Perhaps only us less-decisive and less-violent action takers are so troubled by the idea. But, maybe a hero is the one who steps forward and does the deed when it's necessary. Much to ponder, as I said.