Killing & Murder

[RascalPuff]

Webster's (abbreviated):

Killing & Murder

The two words are very commonly used interchangeably;
yet, they do not at all mean the same thing.

Merriam Webster Dictionary:

Kill - To deprive of life.
To put an end to.
Defeat.
Use up
To mark for omission

Thesaurus:

To take a life.

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Murder:

The crime of unlawfully killing a person,
especially with malice aforethought.

Thesaurus:
To take a life criminally or surreptitiously.
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Colloquial vocabulary blurs the meaning of of these two words.
To do this is to subtract from the important difference:
To introduce a 'gray zone' between necessary and unnecessary taking of life. Particularly of human beings.
This ambiguity is a symptom of a greater maladay. What some traditional Native American's often described - and still describe - as 'The White Man's Disease', though, certainly the 'misunderstanding' crosses most cultural borders.

[mkirkpatrick]

Thanks RP,to me they mean the same thing,in the final analysis,your individual conscience has to be your guide,if you have one that is! A mother killing someone to
protect her child,is somewhat different than a bank robber killing the teller for some
cash!



regards michael.

[bottomlander]

When the authorities ignore an innovative yet off-mainstream cosmological model until the model developer died without flourish, they kill that model.

When the authorities label and misinterpret a cosmology model until the model developer died without flourish, they murder that model.


Best Regards. Bottomlander

[RascalPuff]

When the authorities ignore an innovative yet off-mainstream cosmological model until the model developer died without flourish, they kill that model.

When the authorities label and misinterpret a cosmology model until the model developer died without flourish, they murder that model.


Best Regards. Bottomlander

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Dear Bottomlander:

IMHO: Superbly - and unexpectedly - expressed.


Best regards.
- RP

[bottomlander]

Dear RascalPuff,

You developed and introduced many great and innovative works.

Once Theory of Everything has been formulated and got circulated, people will recognize that great minds are alike. Your promoted models are closer to the Truth rather than many popular frontier mainstream theories.

TOE seems still far away only because people judge from mainstream/erroneous thinking.


Best Regards. Bottomlander