My DM insists "It's the DM's job to kill the PCs". How should I respond to him?
By walking away.
Seriously. If you don't like the way the game is being run, you've got two choices. Politely talk to the DM like a reasonable human being and explain what you would like to see changed OR walk away from the table. Those are choices. And I'm guessing, based on the fact that you are asking some stranger on the internet about it, you don't think reasonable discourse is going to work. So, your response is to leave. Find another game. Run your own. Take up video games instead. Whatever.
Why do people think there is some magical other option besides these two?! You can't make people think or act differently than they do. If they aren't open to persuasion, your only choice is to walk away. Or use violence. But that won't fix the problem. It will just briefly make you feel better. Violence is basically just a way of walking away with the added fun of an aggravated assault charge.
Seriously. If you don't like the way the game is being run, you've got two choices. Politely talk to the DM like a reasonable human being and explain what you would like to see changed OR walk away from the table. Those are choices. And I'm guessing, based on the fact that you are asking some stranger on the internet about it, you don't think reasonable discourse is going to work. So, your response is to leave. Find another game. Run your own. Take up video games instead. Whatever.
Why do people think there is some magical other option besides these two?! You can't make people think or act differently than they do. If they aren't open to persuasion, your only choice is to walk away. Or use violence. But that won't fix the problem. It will just briefly make you feel better. Violence is basically just a way of walking away with the added fun of an aggravated assault charge.