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The Red Dragon
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I'm sure we'd all say we won't but when the time comes where we are faced with that decision...
The thread on evil people has me thinking about what exactally defines murder.
GoldenDelicious
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"murder" is just a legal name for one subset of killing a human being.
killing is murder if it is illegal. the root of your question lies in your interpretation of law, rather than morality.
if you kill a human being in a war sanctioned by your government, and are thereby killing legally through whatever legislative framework your particular country has set up to protect its soldiers from litigation, then you are not murdering the person, youre just killing them.
if, however, the war you participated in turns out to be illegal under international or even domestic law, then it blurs a bit as to whether the fault lies with the person who made the decision to go to war illegally, or with the person doing the killing...but its fair to assume that the law in that country is written to protect soldiers...or at least not prosecute them...meaning that in essence, they are murderers...at least to somebody.
i didnt know curiosity was a side effect of synthol use
killing is murder if it is illegal. the root of your question lies in your interpretation of law, rather than morality.
if you kill a human being in a war sanctioned by your government, and are thereby killing legally through whatever legislative framework your particular country has set up to protect its soldiers from litigation, then you are not murdering the person, youre just killing them.
if, however, the war you participated in turns out to be illegal under international or even domestic law, then it blurs a bit as to whether the fault lies with the person who made the decision to go to war illegally, or with the person doing the killing...but its fair to assume that the law in that country is written to protect soldiers...or at least not prosecute them...meaning that in essence, they are murderers...at least to somebody.
i didnt know curiosity was a side effect of synthol use
The differance is the malice and motivem the method in which it is done and the events leading up to and around it
I'm not going to apply this to every single circumstance in which someone dies at the hands of another, it is easy enough to do that yourself with the information given, beyond that only the people involved in some of these cases truly know if its evil or not
I'm not going to apply this to every single circumstance in which someone dies at the hands of another, it is easy enough to do that yourself with the information given, beyond that only the people involved in some of these cases truly know if its evil or not
