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Murder is, by definition, an unlawful killing.
by cperciva 10y ago
Murder is, by definition, an unlawful killing.
- Spivak 10y agoAnd the definition as it exists in a given body of law is not an absolute definition nor how people typically use the term. The Catholic Church is a good example. The fifth commandment is thou shall not murder. And the Catechism clarifies this by saying > The fifth commandment forbids direct and intentional killing as gravely sinful. The murderer and those who cooperate voluntarily in murder commit a sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance. Source: http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a5.htm http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2...
- megous 10y agoThere's no single law. Is there a law in Somalia that allows US killing arbitrary people there, unilaterally? Is there such a law in Yemen? Syria? In Syria if you follow the letter of the law, and intention of the (idiot) leader there, he's against the US involvement, it would be a murder. What law was in Vietnam, that killing was somehow justified by it? In international arena, there's no universal law. Some idiots killed a few thousands Americans, and then some Americans did go on a killing rampage as a revenge, murdering 10s of thousands mostly unrelated people. That's about how it looks from the outside.