Is Killing the Same as Murder?
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To murder is to kill, but to kill is not necessarily to murder. The same direction is applied with force and violence: violence is force but force is not necessarily violence, as my previous post explained.
Kill
Kill = to end a life.
Interestingly, tue/tuer in French which means to kill, comes from Latin tutor: I guard, protect, defend.
This points to the root of the understanding of kill vs. murder.
To kill (tue in French) derives from guard, protect and defend. Killing is only killing, and not murder, when it is used to guard, protect or defend oneself or others, whereas murder is not. This is the causal root understanding of the difference.
Initiation of violence (murder) vs. defense against an aggressor (kill)
Murder
Murder = unlawful killing
In which law is it unlawful? Moral Law! There is such a thing as lawful killing in Moral Law. When the principle of nonaggression and nonviolence is disregarded and is violated, whereby someone violates and tries to end another's life, the principle of self-defense is allowed to use force to end that unlawful violence and violation, and use whatever force necessary to end that violence.
This can mean that the violent violator is going to be killed, if need be, under this moral law of self-defense. They are breaking the mutual respect, order and law of nonviolence, to do no harm, and shirk their own right to not be harmed because they seek to do harm to another. Someone can take the necessary means to protect, guard and defend themselves against a violent aggressor that threatens to murder them.
Murder is the immoral crime of deliberately killing. When you defend your life, or the life of another, which might require killing, this is not a deliberate killing.
Murder is a form of killing, but it is immoral, as there is no right to do so and is a wrong. The nonaggression and nonviolent moral law is violated by violence. Self-defense takes place as force and not violence, and is a right and not a wrong.
Murder is initiation of violence by taking another’s life that caused no harm to anyone, did no aggression or violence towards another being. Killing is a causal response (self-defense) to an effect and violation brought against another's will (violation of nonaggression and nonviolence).
This is the difference between moral lawful killing, and immoral unlawful murder. One is always allowed to defend their own innocent life, or the life of another innocent, when someone tries to violate that life. This is a natural right under moral law. It's not something to be done lightly, but it is something that can be done rightfully, and is not a wrong.
There are no rules when someone violates and breaks the rules of the principle of nonviolence and threatens to take the life of an innocent (did no harm, aggression or violence to another).
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Know the difference: Is Ignorance the Same as Nescience?.
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Author: Kris Nelson / @krnel
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Date: 2016-09-25, 5:02pm EST
Great post! Upvoted it. For those who commented above: this post is about how we use our words and what they mean, not our intentions or perspectives.
Indeed. Words reflect our understanding of reality. The limits of understanding words declare the limits of understanding reality accurately.
Thank you for making this distinction. There is controversy surrounding this subject in the theological community because of the command from The Ten Commandments of the Holy Bible; Thou shalt not kill, as it is widely known. However when correctly interpreted from the original languages, the correct interpretation is, Thou shalt not murder. Which seems reasonable as there is plenty of instruction in the Bible concerning battle, lawful exercise of judgment, and self defense.
Again thank you for posting.
interesting post excellent exhibitor congratulations
Great post Kris. Agree 100%.
No they are not the same.
Interesting article. From the victim's side, killing and murder both = dead. :)
The victim is the one being violated with incoming murder. The one put down by self-defense force is not a victim but the victimizer.
nice post. interesting to read. upvoted
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semantics can be such a time waster. Taking someone's life is taking someone's life. Intent is always different/circumstances change for every scenario. But ending a life is just that= ending it.
Even johnny 5 was able to grasp this.