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Well, if a killing is ethically justified, it isn't murder. So yes, they're at least begging the question with that statement for sure.
by technothrasher 2y ago
Well, if a killing is ethically justified, it isn't murder. So yes, they're at least begging the question with that statement for sure.
- ziddoap 2y ago>Well, if a killing is ethically justified, it isn't murder. Are you saying this as an opinion, or is this an established thing? I thought murder was an "unlawful killing without justification or valid excuse" (paraphrased from Wikipedia), whether one finds it ethical or not is sort of beside the point. Especially because there is no objectively correct ethics. But, I'm not a lawyer, this is just my understanding.
- bombcar 2y agoI would say you have to be careful and specific - as "murder" is usually the domain of the law and "ethically justified* is the domain of ethics. It's quite easy to come up with situations where the law declares a killing as unequivocally murder yet everyone agrees it was ethically justified. The opposite can happen too.
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