Over the years, I've known a fair number of people who have killed or maimed others, either in military service or as part of unsavory business practices. When I was sixteen, I saw the guy I was dating break the leg of my friend's older brother and then he made him walk on it all night. The breakee was in a huge cast for months, but they appeared to be cool with each other afterward, accepted it as the cost of doing business. I don't think I could maim someone, so I didn't go into the international drug and gun-running biz.
Do you think you could kill or maim a person? If so, in what sort of setting would you be capable of doing either?
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