Question of the Day | 09/15/2009 5:00 am
Putting aside matters of law, criminality and ethics, what three people would you nominate to be offed?
The director John Huston ‘liked to advance the theory that everybody should be allowed three murders,’ according to his daughter Allegra. Join the conversation with Sheila Nevins, Judith Martin, Joan Juliet Buck, Liz Smith and Joan Ganz Cooney.

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Oh my goodness I really had to reread this topic heading twice to see if I was actually reading it correctly. I would agree with others that argue the timing of this question is not appropriate, but I personally don’t believe any time would be appropriate to answer this. Even among personal friends or family I wouldn’t answer this. It is beyond morbid, and any answer given would speak volumes about the mindset (in a negative way) of the person answering the question.
And quite honestly I am shocked and surprised that some of the founders of the site didn’t point that out but instead chose to answer it. This is very disappointing WoW…..very.
I am amazed at all the folks here who have no compunction about capital punishment getting all upset about this purely metaphorical question. In my opinion, with the advances in DNA evidence clearing death row inmates, one innocent person being killed is too many.
I am against capital punishment, and got in some heated debates with folks right here, on this website, before I stopped expressing political opinions at all—it wasn’t worth my blood pressure.
That said, there are many people I have thought, in anger, about socking in the jaw, but I could never do it. Once a person steps over that moral line of intentional harm, there is no going back.
Using Allegra Huston’s statements as serious sources for conversation demonstrates a lack of judgment. I consider her rant pure drivel and wrote that in response. However great her father was as a director, his "witty" remark promotes nothing rational or thought provoking. Whimsy on murder is not entertainment. Can we move on to something more substantial? Thanks.
I think people took this column far too seriously, or have taken the opportunity to pretend themselves elevated from the masses. Everyone has on their Sunday Best and is much to good to verbalize in the dark fantasies they likely have every single day.
I’ve never been too good for fantasy. It keeps me sane. So rather than issuing the vague and unnamed "somebody," I’ll tag a few individuals: Kanye West, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Moore.
For those of you who care about such things, "Thou shalt not kill." There’s nothing "light" or "OK" about fantasy murder, especially expressing it publicly on a blog to a lot of people you don’t know.
Karleen, it’s not that people feel above the masses on this one. They just understand that the world doesn’t need any more "dark fantasies" than it is already carrying.
WoW, you obviously used your legal department to draft the topic headline of this thread. But no amount of careful wording can disguise your intent: to provoke and inflame. Are you running out of topics to bring out the worst in your posters?
"world doesn’t need any more "dark fantasies" than it is already carrying." …. how true is that !
Hard to tell hyperbole from truth these days, the level of anger, rudeness and hatred is reaching a level I’ve never seen, and wOw posts a topic about "Killing" someone ? I fear that it will become reality.
Castration ? yeah, I can see that, but killing, I refuse to participate.
I can’t participate.
I have no interest in perpetuating killing other people, even when we are pretending. I’ve had enough of justifying wars that justifying killing other human beings.

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