Jinn

I suppose it's all murder when you get down to the semantics of the word itself, whether it's a crime of passion, self-defense, or wartime.

So I think essentially your thread comes to "is killing murder", which seems to be a bit like an obvious tautology.

I do think that despite being murder, there is a legal and ethical concept of "justifiable homicide."

Killing someone in self-defense, for example, is something that I will deign is murder with the side note that it's a justified murder.

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