In the name of religion.
But my god is more peaceful than yours. You'll accept this or I'll have to kill you. /s
Yeah. If god's so powerful why can't he do it himself?
He’s on a rest day. Asked us if we could come round instead…
A few years back it snowed in Seattle, which is uncommon. I saw a video where folks were having a snowball fight, as you do. A snowball entered the partially open window of a driver. The lady proceeded to Hop the curb, and drive up some embankments trying to hit people with her car.
For a fuckin snowball.
Guy I know was in his car when it was hit by kids having a snowball fight. So he drove straight at them onto the pavement, trapped them in a shop doorway and cracked their heads together before heading in his way. There was an article in the local paper about the police looking for him because one of the kids suffered a broken jaw. He still feels that it was a justifiable course of action .
Because someone in your government has decided that you have to.
This is mind blowing to me. I understand different perspective and everything and am not trying to knock anyone that genuinely and whole heartedly gets into it. But I cant wrap my head around "X knows best so we must kill for them because they taught us that way." Like there's actually people that think like that while acting like they are their own individual and not just a cog in someone else's game.
On the other hand some people grow up in that culture and are that. Those are the real ones.
According to Johnny Cash it's "just to see him die".
reno does funny shit to people.
because they're mad at the person for being gay, trans, or a different race or religion than you.
Revenge. How should killing a person make it better?
And war, some rich people profit, normal people die
Black Sabbath's War Pigs jumped into my head reading this.
Pol Pot mass murdered anyone wearing glasses.
Because they don't have same color skin.
We get in a fight at a tripple crossroads. He dies. Then I go back to his kingdom and marry his wife. Little did I know she was my mother and he was my father...
Hold on.
There's reasons to kill someone‽
"If someone tries to kill you, you kill 'em right back." - Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly
Please....
You can almost always try to kiss someone and they'll recoil and back down. Or is that just me?
Ime it works great for small town guys.
Except Bill. Bill.... Bill went all the way.
We didn't exactly stop the Nazis through polite conversation
Self defense is generally a pretty good reason.
Mistaken identity. "Sorry, my bad."
To maximize shareholders' profits.
Racism
You want them to live
What if we are in a simulation and the only way to truly live is to die in the simulation?
Because you were not paying attention while behind the wheel.
For ringing your doorbell
In self defense after someone summoned Bigfoot to kill you.
This may win.
A frozen yogurt (no joke, almost happened at my high school)
Well, the dumbest reason I've seen people get murder-y for is typically fighting over inheritance.
It's like... now there's even more inheritance to fight over. Then also you just paid for one funeral, and now you want to pay for another?
Because you want to know what it's like to kill someone.
Because in your impaired judgement you were 'good to drive home' after a few drinks.
Wanna light up a Wendy's?
(JOKING)
I feel like you were going for silly answers and got depressingly true answers. :(
Yeah I was.
Dumbest reason to kill someone is they got too serious on your silly thread.
because they were unable to speak
For whistling.
Because you had to eat without a table.
But mental breaks are a great reason to kill someone... wait until you put your victim's hat on.
There is no good reason to kill. Only bad excuses
Sounds like someone who's never been in a self defense situation.
IRL when you are in a self defence situation, you are already laying on the floor bleeding profusely and/or knocked out, I'm talking from personal experience, most of the time you get sucker punched or/and jumped on or/and punched in the back of the head or/and assaulters have weapons, so unless you're heavily trained, when self defence situation happens you're not gonna protect yourself, as Mike Tyson said, everyone have a plan before they got punched in the mouth, so unless you can act on trained "instincts" you gonna get stomped on the head
Looked at me funny
There will never be a dumbest reason to kill somebody. Humankind will always be inventing the next dumbest reason.
I'm trying to think of the dumbest one I've heard of, and there's so many options I can't quite pick one. So, this.
Politics.
Followers stake the moral upper ground and turn otherwise awful douchebags into martyrs.
In what circumstances would you consider murder a smart choice?
Because they had to turn around in your driveway
Turkey bacon
The entire motivation of the bad guy in Madame Web is that he saw the heroes killing him in a dream so he wants to kill them first...
The only reason they want to kill him is because he keeps fucking attacking them...
That movie is so fucking stupid
The entire motivation of the bad guy in Madame Web is that he saw the heroes killing him in a dream so he wants to kill them first...
The only reason they want to kill him is because he keeps fucking attacking them...
That movie is so fucking stupid
I haven’t seen it, but that’s like, most Ancient Greek stories about prophecy. The only reason the prophecy comes true is that people take actions to prevent it.
For example, Oedipus’s parents find out he’s gonna kill his father and marry his mother. So when he’s an infant they nail his feet together and throw him out of the city. He’s taken in by some kind people, eventually makes his way back to the city later in life, kills his father in an altercation without knowing it’s his father, marries his mother not knowing she’s his mother. If his parents had never heard the prophecy and just, you know, raised him, he wouldn’t have done those things.
Boredom.
Having or not having a moustache
Driving drunk.
On accident. Oops. Damn. Sorry! Fuck now you're dead and everyone's sad/mad and I'll be in prison the rest of my life. Dammit 😭
My favourites are killing refs for making bad calls, or killing other parents because their kid did something in a game
Some guy once killed a man over a beanie baby
For entertainment.
Tickle fight!
Because they've given you everything you've ever wanted, been nothing but genuinely kind to you, and done nothing you've ever disagreed with.
These other answers are dumb, but for it to be the dumbest it has to be dumber than "they did something I don't think is wrong" and instead is "they did something that everyone agrees is right."
You could watch a documentary about serial killers or check current wars, it's full or dumb reasons to kill other people.
For having a bad singing voice
Because they are gay for people that older than them.
My ex beat his mom to death when she, after having bailed him out of jail for a dui while he was still a child and in high school, told him he was ruining his life with alcohol and if he didn’t watch out, he’d end up a loser or in prison. That’s somewhat harsh and probably feels bad from your mom, but it’s also a pretty standard attempt at good parenting that was probably intended to be a wake-up call.
For what it’s worth, she was 100% right, he did end up in prison and a loser.
For context, I met him a year or so after he got out, and he lied to me about basically every aspect of his life, to the point that I only even found out about the murder a few days after we broke up. I didn’t intentionally date someone who murdered their mom.
I had, however, already made bad dating decisions before meeting him, which was actually protective, because I’d learned the hard way not to argue emotionally. Especially important, because I did actually break up with him because his drinking was out of control and he did seem to be turning into a loser (I don’t use the term a lot, but he started casually scamming people for small amounts and kept getting fired from jobs because of something totally out of his control that was less and less believable every time. He just wasn’t contributing anything positive to the world nor was he enjoying his life). I’ve thought a lot about what might have happened if I’d told him that plainly.
I realized after we broke up that he’d been skimming my ADHD medication (along with literally any pills he could find, including some for a friend’s congenital heart condition with zero psychoactive effect) and selling it as Molly to my friends and me. A few months later, my friends and I realized that he’d been the person who stole my purse with my rent money in it on new year’s. He didn’t even “mysteriously find” my phone (it was a tracphone, there was zero value in it to anyone but me) or any ID cards to help me out a bit, just stone cold watched me try to replace everything and scramble to pay double rent with no ATM access in the first week of January. So yeah, petty scams. I’m autistic and a bad character judge (no, really?), he could have literally scammed me forever if he’d had a little planning ability. I know this is coming off like I support big scams, but it just makes it seem even stupider in the end. Like, stealing my $500 rent gets him $500, which is pretty good. It loses me (at the time a college student working part time as a waitress) $500, a phone, a beloved purse, my ID, debit, and insurance cards, which is worth way more than $500. Plus, he again had a trust fund! I think he really did like me, too. He just didn’t know how not to take advantage of people. I have a google alert set for his name and he got arrested for violating the restraining order his next ex had against him to beat her up (not enough to charge him with attempted murder, but I haven’t read the details). I tried to get one at the time, but the process to get one would have made all the information about my schedule and addresses available to him before a decision was made. I just moved and bet on him not remembering the one or two trips to my sisters house well enough to get back there, which he didn’t.
I’ve also wondered a lot about what was wrong with him. He was absolutely an alcoholic, but even if he started very young, alcohol addiction doesn’t immediately turn you into a monster (my sister started in early high school and she was totally out of control with drinking, but she didn’t cause pain just for the fun of it much more than other teenagers, but maybe that’s luck) and it’s pretty difficult to empathize with bludgeoning your mother to death for what should be a pretty transparent attempt to help you (even small children know that they get yelled at for scaring their parents when they wander off- parents being emotionally invested in their kids can’t be a surprise, plus he was generally pretty perceptive). It could be that his mother or both parents were abusive and either the words or the intent of what she was saying wasn’t reported by the neighbors, but his dad still had limited contact with him and had set up a trust for him during his time in prison that would provide him with enough money to survive, but not enough to get into much trouble every month, which seems like a pretty reasonable way for a loving parent to react to something like this- make sure he’s safe and stay in his life, but at arm’s reach. He could also have just been missing some combination of foresight and sympathy for his whole life, but that’s the second worst option. The worst one is that he was a completely normal kid who made one ghastly violent decision because his brain wasn’t yet mature and he was still tipsy, got shuttled off to a crucible of trauma for two decades and then spent the rest of his life taking the resultant guilt out on those around him.
