the point is, the term murder exists for purposes of determining sentences and punishment for crime. if we as a society decided that homicide and regicide were of the same magnitude, we’d call them both murder. we don’t. we call one murder and one assassination. not sure what your point of redefining air means.
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Killing tapeworms isn’t murder because only killing a human can be murder.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why? Murder is a classification of law. We could make killing a joke murder if we wanted.
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
If you change the definition of air to mean
you’ll be able to walk on air, but as it stands, you can not walk on air.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
the point is, the term murder exists for purposes of determining sentences and punishment for crime. if we as a society decided that homicide and regicide were of the same magnitude, we’d call them both murder. we don’t. we call one murder and one assassination. not sure what your point of redefining air means.