Does it have anything to do with higher social status/or celebrity? or just the motivation behind it? Please clarify
2007-06-12 09:45:49 · 18 answers · asked by Michelle C 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Assassinations are typically murders of important or well-known people, and typically for religious or political reasons. It's not about celebrity. People wouldn't say Paris Hilton was assassinated, because her actual purpose is kind of missing from the equation.
2007-06-12 09:49:47 · answer #1 · answered by Buying is Voting 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could say it was because of social status, but it's really a distinction based upon a combination of motive and status of any kind.
When a person is intentionally killed >because of< his title, position, power, or perceived authority, that is assassination.
In the US, this kind of killing is NOT SUPPOSED to have different punishment, because the Constitution says there shall be no titles of nobility. HOWEVER there are laws providing additional punishment for killing government employees and officeholders, some specific assassinations. So those laws are of questionable constitutionality.
John Lennon was assassinated. We say this because of his perceived influence. In this case the term is not precise.
When a person is intentionally killed because of a relationship between the killer and the victim, that is just murder. If the son of an elected official kills that official for personal reasons, that is just murder.
When a person is unintentionally killed, neither term applies.
2007-06-12 10:08:07 · answer #2 · answered by jesteele1948 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In its most common use, assassination has come to mean the killing of an important person. An assassin — one who carries out the assassination — is usually motivated by ideological or political reasons. Other motivations may be money in the case of a hitman; opposition to a person's beliefs or belief systems in the case of a fanatic; orders from a government that are often carried about by a subversive agent such as a spy; or loyalty to a competing leader or group.
It's all murder though.
2007-06-12 09:50:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
an assignation is when a mentally unstable person is hired to kill a person or persons. this happens in politics and most wrong marriages their hired so that the hirer will not get in trouble. a murder is a killing done but intentional meaning or for that persons own gain.not asked. Id have to say it does with both most celebrities in a sit. like this are assasinated it take a great deal of money to assinate a celebrity..like the president or w/e..this isn't the best answer but hope it helped some.
2007-06-12 09:54:49 · answer #4 · answered by Teaser 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think motivation is the difference. Assassination is usually political and or part of a quest for power. An assassination is also murder, but murder isn't necessarily assassination. But dead is dead, so I'm sure the victim sees no difference at all.
2007-06-12 09:56:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A murder anyone can attempt to do out of any kind of crime of passion or other reasons.
An assination is usually hired out to do the execution like in the JFK plot or the Mob members, etc., for power or wealth reasons, or it could be like the SWAT team has to bring down someone for holding hostages, asassinate them to difuse the situation, etc. U R right, they both are murder.
If one was to commit suicide, which would they be? Both!
Greed, wealth, insurance, drugs, cheaters, feuds, different beliefs, hostages; all stem to the same issue. Just different people, different circumstances, different places in our world.
2007-06-12 10:03:54 · answer #6 · answered by donna D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An assasination is when somebody is targeted because of their celebrity (political or otherwise). The assasin does not personally know the victim. An assasination is well planned, not a crime of passion (done inthe heat of an argument) or an accident.
2007-06-12 09:50:32 · answer #7 · answered by laughingnovemberrain 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Assasination is the murder of the President and only the President
If any citizen gets killed then it is murder.
So, yes, it is just the social status
2007-06-12 09:51:06 · answer #8 · answered by rachel_ksr 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Intent... An assassination is usually thoroughly thought out/planned and is done in a secretive manner (as in hiding out on the grassy knoll or in a bell tower...)
2007-06-12 09:50:58 · answer #9 · answered by Julie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a president, police officer, government official, etc gets assassinated, people who dont have those types of status just get murdered.
2007-06-12 11:43:38 · answer #10 · answered by science rules! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋