Interesting article. I’d worry about concept creep here. If murder is more than ending someone’s life, then it doesn’t take much for us to exact the same punishment against those who perpetrate spiritual or metaphorical murder, which is much more subject to one’s preferences and prejudices.
Interesting article. I’d worry about concept creep here. If murder is more than ending someone’s life, then it doesn’t take much for us to exact the same punishment against those who perpetrate spiritual or metaphorical murder, which is much more subject to one’s preferences and prejudices.
Sure—this is why I say that the engine behind various other actions is the same, but that murder, as the discrete ending of a life, is different.
Fair enough!