murder...vs...killing!!
killing is the taking of a human life... murder is the illegal taking of a human life. Most humans are capable of killing... but most of us are not capable of murder... or are we!!! What seperates killing from murder.. a law!!! laws can change... as an example... the death penalty! If we change our death penalty laws and say it is no longer legal for the state to execute prisoners it becomes murder for the state to execute someone... so when the law changes on Jan 1st of a certain year... the guy executed on Dec 31st was killed by the state... if it had happened on Jan 2nd.. it would have been murder... but what has changed other than a date??? What has changed is our collective idea about what is and what isn't murder... the acts reamin the same! What is murder today.. may not be murder tomorrow.. but killing is always killing! If we change a law as in the death penalty... does that make all the killing by the state in past years murder???? why not? If it is murder today... will it not be murder tomorrow... and wouldn't it be murder yesterday.
I think the real question isn't if you would murder someone... because under the right circumstance we all would... the question is how we fool ourselves into thinking we are just in what we do.... how we justify our actions!
Just my thoughts... something to think about!! |