So ... you see a serial killer murder someone. You can kill them or you can let them go, there is no other reasonable option. You know that if you let him go he will kill someone else (because, magic/zone of truth/whatever).
Are you asking me personally? Im not Good aligned in the real world. Im probably more CN than anything else.
I cheat on girlfriends, am generally selfish, but also work in human rights law helping others less fortunate than me (but get paid for it). I dont steal, I dont rape or murder. Im a hedonist at heart, and a liberal. I tend not to follow laws unless I have to or it just pans out that way. Drugs and booze are perfectly fine, and I'll happily sleep with someone (legal) but half my age, and not blink, Probably CN with some goodish traits, and some evil ones.
My personal view is not to kill the bastard. I subdue him (at gun point) and take him to the authorities, He makes a move for my gun and I shoot him dead.
If he were to kill someone I love (or a child or something) I might be tempted to shoot him if no-one is around, and then put a knife in his hands. Emotion might get the better of me. I'd lose a lot of sleep over it though.
But I'm CN, and that's what a CN person would do.
You're saying it's a good thing to let them go?
Im saying mercy is a good thing.
Killing a defenceless person is an evil thing. Thats what made our serial killer evil in the first place remember?
Again, if youre asking for my pesonal view, I sit in the middle. I oppose the death penalty personally (because it doesnt work, and as a lawyer, I see State tyranny an injustice all the time, which I oppose). I support longer prison sentences for murder (20 years minimum) with a stronger possibility of life means life for serious cases of multiple murders etc/
Im CN though, so that sounds about right for that alignment.