2007-06-19 12:38:04 · 9 answers · asked by sokrates 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Murder is a legal, moral, ethical deed. Once done, is not conceptual. You can kill for several reasons, to survive, the survival of loved ones, patriotism or just because you are amoral. The death of another human being is to be avoided unless there is absolutely no other option.
2007-06-19 13:56:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
'Murder' is a word used to describe a certain type of event.
Whether any particular event is good or bad is an ethical question. Whether murder SHOULD be punished, for example.
What you are going to do about any particular event is a legal or perhaps political question. Whether murder IS punished and how, for example.
One would hope that the laws have a certain ethical basis, but it is quite obviously not always the case. So it goes.
2007-06-19 19:44:48 · answer #2 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the person. For me it is a moral concept. Even if it was the law, I wouldnt kill unless it was in self defense and protection of me and my family. For some people, BECAUSE it is against the law, they dont do it, otherwise they would. But you know, even though its against the law, people who want to kill still do, they just try to not get caught. So I think for most people it is a moral/ethical concept.
2007-06-19 19:42:50 · answer #3 · answered by Barefoot 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In essence, at the purest moral / ethical level, murder doesn't exist.
Killing does.
The legal system of our supposedly civilised society defines murder as "The unlawful act of killing another person." or simplified, "...illegal killing".
Therefore "murder" is purely a legal concept.
The sad thing is, is that we use the legal system to protect our fragile and ofttimes tenuous grip on ethics.
The legal system allows us to bypass ethics and responsibility by defining some killing as "legal". ie. war, capital punishment, etc...
Perhaps the question should be...
"Is the legal system ethical..?"
And on the same vein...
"To whoms morally ethical standpoint does it conform?"
D...!
2007-06-19 20:23:35 · answer #4 · answered by Irish D.... 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
moral/ethical concept
2007-06-19 20:49:23 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
murder is both if you think about it.
you killed some guy,
you go to court and hope on the morality of the jury to decide whether they believe you were justified or not.
2007-06-19 19:58:45 · answer #6 · answered by justin m 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's something that'll get you killed eventually.
If not by lethal injection then somehow by someone who feels as uninhibitted about the act as you do.
Just seems to work out that way.
2007-06-19 19:46:36 · answer #7 · answered by vanamont7 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Thou shalt not kill - one of the 10 commandments given to us by Moses from G-d.
I rest my case.
2007-06-20 08:09:08 · answer #8 · answered by happy inside 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
anything that will get you the chair or twenty plus years of extreme butt pounding and " soap, soap, who's got the soap" games is definitely a LEGAL problem.
Vin
2007-06-19 19:42:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋