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Originally Posted by miclo18d
Killing is not murder. Killing is what you do when you are protecting your home, your property, your team mates from someone trying to do you harm, armed with a gun or an IED, or even talking on a radio planning my demise.
Murder is what you do when someone doesn't have the means to further harm you and you consciously, through anger, malice, jealousy, envy, revenge, politics, peer pressure, or power (I'm sure there are other reasons) end their life.
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I was doing some studying a few weeks ago. A scholar opined that the King James Bible mistranslated a line of the Ten Commandments. According to the scholar, "Thou shalt not kill" should have translated to "Thou shall not murder", but the two words had little to any distinction in old English at the time of the King James translation. The gulf between the words today is rather large.
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