ZeroCool@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoSouth Carolina executes second man by firing squad in 5 weekswww.cbsnews.comvideomessage-square130fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareZoboomafoo@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 days agoAll killing is murder, states are just gangs big enough to have a PR team and the ability to indoctrinate the youth into following their rules. Good on South Carolina for making that more plain.
minus-squareSterile_Technique@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days ago All killing is murder homicide* Murder is just homicide that’s illegal; and legality should never be conflated with morality. In any context, not just killing. Being sanctioned by the state doesn’t make it moral; and being illegal doesn’t make it immoral (and yes, homicide can be moral).
minus-squarekofe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 days agoI tell forced birthers even if I am murdering a conscious being, I’m justified in protecting myself from unnecessary, nonconsented harm
minus-squareManmoth@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 days agoThe state having a Monopoly on violence is sort of the point of a social contract. That being said I’m not a proponent of the death penalty. Life is sacred.
All killing is murder, states are just gangs big enough to have a PR team and the ability to indoctrinate the youth into following their rules.
Good on South Carolina for making that more plain.
homicide*
Murder is just homicide that’s illegal; and legality should never be conflated with morality. In any context, not just killing.
Being sanctioned by the state doesn’t make it moral; and being illegal doesn’t make it immoral (and yes, homicide can be moral).
I tell forced birthers even if I am murdering a conscious being, I’m justified in protecting myself from unnecessary, nonconsented harm
The state having a Monopoly on violence is sort of the point of a social contract. That being said I’m not a proponent of the death penalty. Life is sacred.