2007-02-28 12:21:58 · 11 answers · asked by mrmoth99_99 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
There is not a significant difference. It is word color to use one or the other.
Some people think assassination is used to describe the murder of officials, but that is not true. Sometimes, assassination is used to describe the way an ordinary person is murdered.
Usually, assassination involves a high level of premediation and planning, but it can also be used to describe a method of killing, such as the "Colombian necktie."
2007-02-28 12:28:36 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Assasination is a VIP murder, usually political.
Assassination is the murder of a political figure or other important individual. An added distinction between assassination and other forms of killing is that an assassin usually has an ideological or political motivation, though many assassins (especially those who are not part of an organised movement) also show elements of insanity. Other motivations may be money (as in the case of a contract killing), revenge, or as a military operation
2007-02-28 12:26:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
To assassinate would be a plot to kill a particular person. To murder is more generalized, it could be intentional, accident, and you could intentionally murder someone you don't even know. An assassination is more specific.
2007-02-28 12:42:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To assassinate is to murder someone that is a "high profile" personality...a public figure, such as the President.
Murder is the intentional, planned killing of any person. What a morbid subject...
2007-02-28 12:27:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Depends on the context. Politicians discussing assassination is totally different than the same people discussing murder.
2007-02-28 12:33:24 · answer #5 · answered by ArgleBargleWoogleBoo 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Slay comes from the Anglo-Saxon word slean, meaning to kill. It is morally neutral, as it could apply to killing someone in battle or in a duel.
Murder is an act of unlawful killing. It is a crime committed "with malice aforethought" and deliberately planned. It is punishable by law.
Assassination has political overtones. The victim is someone with whose views the assassin does not agree and he kills him not with malicious intent, but to rid the world of someone whom he perceives as a threat to its wellbeing. In other words, he does not so much kill the person as what the person represents.
2007-02-28 12:28:25 · answer #6 · answered by danielle 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
4 letters
2007-02-28 12:25:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
i agree with four letters, but also, if you are murdered and you are famous, it is an assassination, but if you aren't famous, it is called murder.
2007-02-28 12:25:09 · answer #8 · answered by o_0 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
As best as I can tell, four letters, either way, you get the same effect.
2007-02-28 12:28:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
there are the same......only if ur an important person when you are murdered...it is called assissnation
2007-02-28 12:25:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋