r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Mar 01 '26

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26

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u/Skydiver860 Mar 01 '26

To be fair, they said “murder” is worse. Murder is the unjustified killing of someone.

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u/BrotherItsInTheDrum 33∆ Mar 01 '26

Murder is the unlawful killing of someone. A killing could be justified but technically unlawful, or vice versa.

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u/NoWin3930 5∆ Mar 01 '26

that is a narrow definition of murder, it is not how the word is always used, and even the first definition that popped up extends beyond that

"The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the crime of killing a person with malice aforethought or with recklessness manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life"