Scruples

Posted in Old blogger by Twenty Major on June 26th, 2006

I would just like to state on the record that I have never killed anyone.

Perhaps I might have dealt somebody a fatal blow or ’strangled somebody to death’ but I have never killed anyone. Now that that’s out of the way let me ask you something.

Would you kill somebody if you knew 100% that you would get away with it?

I mean get away with it on a civil level. No cops, no murder squad, no jail. What happens to you after you do it in terms of your own guilt is something else and those of you who believe in God and believe that when you die you’ll be judged on your actions in this life have got that to consider.

Now, we’d all certainly have no hesitation in murdering Phil Collins if we got the chance and there are very few people who would pass up the opportunity to end the life of zany radio ’star’ Ryan Tubridy so we’ll leave those aside. Think about your own life. About people you don’t like, about people who have crossed you, who have done you wrong, have done things to your family or friends, perhaps.

Then picture that person in front of you in a room, hands bound behind their back, begging for their life. Apologising. Promising. Weeping.

Could you kill them? Well?

I asked the lads in Ron’s last night.

“I’d kill the shite out of anyone, so I would” - Jimmy the Bollix.

“I don’t know if I could live with myself. To see the very life ebb out of somebody at my wicked hand would, perhaps, be too much for my brain to cope with” - Dirty Dave

“And I definitely wouldn’t get caught? Right. Yeah. I mean, no. Although yeah. But Jaysus I might have to go the funeral, so no. Although maybe. No. Yeah. No. Yeah. Ah fuck ya, I’ll be thinking about this all night” - Stinking Pete

“A-why you a-ask me this a-stupid question, Twenty?” - Lucky Luciano.

So how many murderous readers are there?