Will you kill if you will not get caught

Will you kill if you will not get caught.

This is was a poster hoarding I saw the other day across the road. May  be it was a new Netflix story or a new amazon prime series – I don’t remember.

But it is an interesting question. Would I kill someone, if I know I will not get caught for doing the crime. On deliberation, let us see who are all the people who actually kill people :

1.       All our soldiers kill, without the killing getting on to their conscience. They do since it is their duty – towards the motherland and towards their other fellow human beings. They have a justification for killing.

2.       Criminals kill- But not many of them get caught. They still lead a free life

3.       Lunatics Kill – But they are not sane and do not understand what they are doing

4.       Politicians /Bureaucrats kill – though not directly, through henchmen, or through police/soldiers whom they authorise to kill.

5.       Doctors Kill – not intentionally, but sometimes their treatment goes wrong and they have death on their hands

Which brings us to an interesting juncture – Do these people carry the killing of people on their conscience. Will it weigh heavy on their heart that they have been instrumental in getting someone most. Do they sleep peacefully. Well, this is a question I cannot answer.

On the question of would I kill someone, If I know I will not get caught – the answer is NO. I cannot and will not kill anyone. I don’t hate anyone so much that I would even entertain the thought of killing. Even if I hate someone, I would leave it to Karma to do the job. That is not my job.

There are instances, when I had wished I had a super big boxer hands that I thrash someone off senseless. There were instances where I have imagined me thrashing and stamping people who have angered me. But that was only in my imagination. That was my own anger let-out therapy – helps me to keep cool and control my emotions.

I don’t know what I would do if it is a question is killing for protecting my loved ones – Like in a movie like situation where, I have to kill someone to ensure the life of a loved one. I cannot bring myself to think that I would kill even then. May be I will look at disabling the threat in any other manner other than killing, if there is a possibility.

I believe that life is very short to entertain feelings of hate, anger, frustration for long. It unnecessarily clogs the mind and eats way time – which I consider is the most precious thing of all. If someone is devoting time for you unconditionally, you should truly appreciate that person.

Rather than entertaining negative feelings in mind, it is better to use the time to introspect and think as an outsider and come up with ideas to deal with such situations.