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I. Top Reasons people commit murder

A lot of people die every day but not all of them are murdered.

Murder is when a person kills another for selfish reasons.

But what could be those selfish reasons for which someone might kill someone?

Jealousy?

Greed?

Love?

Hatred?

There have been a lot of discussions over this question and many experts, psychiatrists, and defense department genius people have studies the criminals and came across a lot of reasons for killing someone.

There are a lot of answers to this question and the very common reasons are discussed below:

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Mercy killing:

Mercy killings are not very common but prevail in every society by a certain percentage.

Mercy killings are those categories of killing when the person being killed has asked to do so.

If a person is extremely ill and sick and cannot be cured, he/she is lying all day on the bed, suffering the pain each second and bear it even if it is worse; then the doctor injects something and all of a sudden the patient is free from all the pain and free from the painful life and rests in peace.

If not the doctor, it can be someone who was a loved one to the patient and could not see the patient in that painful condition and kill the patient to bring peace to the body and soul.

Mercy killings are also known as the easier and faster way to die from the old age diseases and also considered as peaceful, unnatural deaths in some places.

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9. Road discipline:

Despite of many policies to control the traffic, the problem is not yet solved.

Many people die in road accidents.

Accident is not a specific reason to kill someone until and unless planned of.

Other cases of road rage are examples where a person may overtake and you don’t like and try to overtake instead even if no space to do so.

Other such example is killing someone while having a road race and if it seems that he/she cannot win, and then they will not let the other party win and kill them instead.

Sometimes, it is just the drunk driver who does not like if someone blows a horn and kill him or maybe he is drunk and so cannot see those people walking in front of his car and kill them.

8. Greed:

Greedy is again one of those people who will kill.

Just as anger shapes into killings, greed also does the same.

Majority of the times it is the inheritance factor that involves killing and murdering people.

Suppose you have an uncle who has a large business and a big property.

You may think that before this uncle changes his mind about sharing the property with someone else and change the will, let us get rid of him.

Another example of greed is that you are an eligible candidate for getting promoted in the office and so is one of your colleagues.

So you might want to get rid of the colleague so that only you will be eligible for promotion and you will definitely get it.

7. Anger:

Anger is another reason to kill someone.

Many have died just because the murderer was in an angry mood and could think rationally.

Being angry means nothing more than being out of control.

The mind focuses only on those things that have been the root causes of anger; in other words, the mind pays attention to whatever you think is the reason for anger.

The main reason for anger is that things are not the way you want them to be.

If anything goes unexpected and you don’t like it, you may get angry.

And if a particular person is responsible for your anger, then you start hating that person and want him off this planet and you don’t want to see his/her face any longer.

In such situations, the person loses the capacity to think of the consequences and simply focuses on killing that person.

6. Self-defense:

Self-defense is another very common reason of killing someone.

If you are alone walking on the street and someone tries to hurt you for getting away with your purse or wallet, then if you attack that person for your protection and for protecting your property, then this is called self-defense.

In the eyes of the law, self-defense is a valid and just thing to do.

But in the process of self-defense you may even kill that person trying to rob you or kill you.

Courts in our country handle such cases on a weekly basis.

There are a lot of cases when people have been killed because of self-defense.

Self-defense is not natural only on the streets, but also, in the domestic life, for instance, if you are being tortured by your mother-in-law or husband.

Self-defense can be in any form and anywhere.

5. Religion arguments:

Although this is not very common reason in all the countries, but it does exists very prominently in India.

The best example of this is that a secular nation as India might have many religions and various followers; there are still wars between Hindus and Muslims.

One can never hear anything against one’s religion.

This is a tendency of humans to love the Gods whom they worship and so there is nothing wrong with this.

One can worship anyone they want and anytime they desire and in any manner they like.

But the thing that is wrong is that they should not oppose what others are doing.

If the government allows you to worship in your way, then you should not object on the way others are worshiping.

This is the problem with the population that they do not ignore and always interfere.

This leads to a lot of fights, in turn, leading to death of a person or death of the whole group believing in that religion.

How many deaths have been caused by religion?

Here's a list of religiously motivated wars and genocides and their death tolls.

from an Atheists source...

The Crusades: 6,000,000

Thirty Years War: 11,500,000

French Wars of Religion: 4,000,000

Second Sudanese Civil War: 2,000,000

Lebanese Civil War: 250,000

Muslim Conquests of India: 80,000,000

Congolese Genocide (King Leopold II): 13,000,000

Armenian Genocide: 1,500,000

Rwandan Genocide: 800,000

Eighty Years' War: 1,000,000

Nigerian Civil War: 1,000,000

Great Peasants' Revolt: 250,000

First Sudanese Civil War: 1,000,000

Jewish Diaspora (Not Including the Holocaust): 1,000,000

The Holocaust (Jewish and Homosexual Deaths): 6,500,000

Islamic Terrorism Since 2000: 150,000

Iraq War: 500,000

US Western Expansion (Justified by "Manifest Destiny"):20,000,000

Atlantic Slave Trade (Justified by Christianity): 14,000,000

Aztec Human Sacrifice: 80,000

AIDS deaths in Africa largely due to opposition to condoms: 30,000,000

Spanish Inquisition: 5,000

TOTAL: 195,035,000 deaths in the name of religion.

4. Alcohol and drugs:

One of the reasons of killing someone is just that the person is high.

People lose their sense when they are loaded with alcohol and drugs.

Drugs have a very powerful effect on the brain of a person irrespective of the age and sex.

Same is the case with alcohol and same is the effect.

While they are high, they forget the difference between right and wrong.

Everything they do while being drunk seems rational to them.

Some people believe that whatever mistakes they do are justified if they were not in control at that time.

Many people have died only because the other person was drunk and did not realize what he or she was doing.

If a person is drunk, then a single statement can make you dead.

3. Revenge:

Revenge is a very strong feeling that can even make non-criminals kill others.

If someone did wrong to you, then revenge is the feeling that where you want the other person to experience the same, experience everything you went through.

People dealing with the feeling of revenge always end up hurting people.