would you have done what John Smith had done?

well overall i think it's obviously NO.

because the simple fact that taking out EVERYONE of that person's family who had nothing to do with it at all would obviously be wrong and just evil... getting the person(s) involved would not be a bad idea but to take out someones bloodline is just evil/sick etc etc.

i think most people would probably agree with that and have a generally similar reaction if they where in that situation because anyone who loses a family member to murder obviously wants the person who did it to die etc etc... it's a natural reaction.

but then again losing a wife & daughter would probably push you over the edge as the pain from that would probably make you lose your mind... because them just getting murdered would be bad enough but then to think they where raped first and suffered then died and then not only is it one person dead but BOTH of them would be unimaginable so i suppose in some cases could make you do things you would never otherwise do.



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I am sorry to tell you that my answer would be definitely a YES.., I would have done the same, in front of the killers if i can too.

I don't know. I hope I wouldn't, but sometimes lines can be crossed beyond the self control of a man. I dearly hope I won't ever have to face that decision ...

Personally I think anyone who would kill someone's family in order to make them suffer more before killing them is insane. You're killing people who have absolutely nothing to do with the crime just to inflict more pain on someone who IS responsible? What kind of fcked up logic is that?

If you really wanted to make them suffer more, why not just kidnap the guys, find a nice secluded place to stash them, and then start figuring out ways to torture them? You could stay out in some remote location for _days_ and work on them. No need to involve innocents.

I liked his logic anyhow...

"I am Jack's cold sweat."

Would I do it in his position? Most likely. I would have naught to live for. I would fear nothing, not death, nor consequences, nor pain. Hell, I would welcome pain, it would remind me of my former humanity, for all I would feel would be numbess. I would welome death, to remove my pathetic existence of uselessness. Death, like most good things, comes last. Death is the true and only last... Life's a bitch like that, isn't it?


I can just hear John Smith's voice in my head, repeating those words. It's how I beleve I would feel afterword if that would happen to me, God forbid.

twas something i really liked about this film. usually it would just be that he'd murdered the guys who did the deed in which case you'd automatically and totally buy into the idea he's a good guy who did what anybody else would do and he's being wrongly persecuted. that he wiped out the killers' bloodlines beforehand seems like a more realistic depiction of the horrible places a soul could sink to in that situation. and still not be a bad guy. who knows what one would do; hopefully none of you.

If I knew for a fact who was responsible I'd probably be tempted to kill them for it, but certainly NOT their families.