Suppose, for example, that you could save a million lives by killing one innocent person.

At one point, the Hobbit saved his life by killing the troll.

Once, when he was a hunted child, she saved him by killing an assassin.

Spike saves Wood by killing the vampire from behind, then helps him up.

"And maybe if he gets too close to getting caught, or noticed," I said, "he'll want to save himself by killing you."

"We could save some juice by killing most of the lights in the ship."

"You could save a lot of time and effort by killing them right away."

Thus, he is able to save Hussein's life by killing a man-eating tiger.

He is the only God called upon to save good beings by defeating or killing the asuras.

She saved lives in her hospital, and we saved whole worlds by killing the right people.