Could you, or would you? Which is the real question you are trying to ask?
I don't think "could you kill someone" is really much of a question - anyone can kill anyone else. If, for some strange reason, the overwhelming urge suddenly overtook me, I could walk outside, beat someone to death with my bare hands, and go eat lunch all inside of an hour. Some people think that it takes something special and twisted to be able to dispassionately murder someone - to just walk up to some random person and kill them. I don't believe this is true at all.
But would would you kill someone? What's in it for me? Will I be caught? There's no point in just walking out and killing someone, even if you could. You don't gain anything by killing someone, and you run the risk of getting killed yourself or spending the rest of your natural life incarcerated in some dank dungeon.
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Sure I have a heart; it's floating in a jar in my closet, along with my tonsils, my appendix, and all of the other useless organs I ripped out.
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