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Originally posted by Attalus:
Talthyr, that is NOT murder. The dictionary says:
Main Entry: [1]mur·der
Pronunciation: 'm&r-d&r
Function: noun
Etymology: partly from Middle English murther, from Old English morthor; partly from Middle English murdre, from Old French, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English morthor; akin to Old High German mord murder, Latin mort-, mors death, mori to die, mortuus dead, Greek brotos mortal
Date: before 12th century
1 : the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought
The key word here is unlawful. Executoin is perfectly legal. You can call it "murder" all day long, but it doesn't make it so.
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So, basically it is not murder because it is lawful. Right, so if you went to a foreign country and one of your loved ones was shot for standing on an important persons shadow (hey this is theoretical) would you think that it was ok because according to them as it was lawful??
Lawfulness is differently defined all across the wrodl so without having one single recognised "law" who are we to say which things are lawfuil if someone else completely disagres?? Who can tell who's right? If you ask me the situation is made a lot easier with no more death in it than necessary, unless of course you know of a place where it is unlawful to not kill someone??
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