I'm sure you've heard the expression, "I brought you into the world, and I can take you out of it." It's a bit of a contradiction, because assuming it means "I'm going to kill you," the person in question is going to end up even more "in" the world than he was in the first place, because when a person is dead, he's usually buried. In the ground. Which is a big part of "the world," so the expression should be, "I brought you into this world, and I can put you in it," which is just stupid.
If you want to be true to your word, then when you say "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out of it," and decide to follow through, you have to put the subject in a rocket or airplane or on a very large bird and take them off the ground. If the word "world" refers to the entire Earth, including the Earth's atmosphere, your best option is a rocket so you can take the subject into Deep Space.
If you don't do this, people will assume you're a pushover, and then nobody will do what you want. It's like Westley said, "once word gets out that a pirate's gone soft, people begin to disobey him, and it's nothing but work, work, work all the time."
Conclusion: if you're going to use that expression, make sure you have the means to take someone into Deep Space, otherwise you'll never get what you want again.
Or, you could find a way to completely annihilate the subject's existence. I don't know how to do that. I know that God has the power to annihilate people just by not thinking about them, so if we got God really really distracted, we could probably get Him to stop thinking about something. That's actually a really good idea.
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