I have seen here that many see these as completely different ideas. In my dictionary it list murder as killing with aforethought. Please explain your personal view on the differences of these two words.
2007-11-20 08:08:01 · 32 answers · asked by Desert Lotus 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Killing with intent is murder but killing in any other way, there will always be an excuse whether it´s humans or animals.
2007-11-20 08:28:58 · answer #1 · answered by soñador 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In many countries, infanticide, or the killing of a newborn baby by the mother under a state of stress is considered to be "less evil" than killing a five year old child. A fetus becomes a baby after about 21 weeks, at which life outside the uterus becomes possible which is why most countries allow abortion to be preformed until the 21st week of the pregnancy. Perceiving abortion as murder or infanticide is a question of moral, especially orthodox Cristian moral. This also holds true to the difference between infanticide and the murder of a five year old child. Your question really doesn't have an answer, but depends on each and everyones personal morals.
2016-04-05 00:30:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Murder is when you take a gun and walk into a home, or a store, or on the street, and point that gun at someone, and shot him, thus killing him. You planned it and carried it out. You killed an innocent person. This is considered murder. You can also murder someone by driving a car into their car.
Killing is similar to murder, but it is not planned and carried out, and can be accidental.
You kill animals for food. But, if you kill an animal in an inhumane or barbarous way, it's considered murder.
2007-11-20 08:15:27 · answer #3 · answered by nymormon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like the dictionary definition says, murder is different from just killing in that murder is a planned or intended killing.
This is the regular, layman's definition, as opposed to the legal definition which is very murky and complicated.
2007-11-20 08:12:27 · answer #4 · answered by Underground Man 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Murder is killing, but killing is not necessarily murder. Murder is the willful taking of a life for personal gain IMO. Thus, accidents, war, or capital punishment wouldn't fall under the "murder" definition. However, a serial killer or an abortion doctor would.
2007-11-20 08:14:48 · answer #5 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Murder is the intentional ending of someone's life because of selfish reasons decided upon by the murderer. Killing someone can be accidental or done in the defense of self or others. I could kill someone if they were about to kill one of my children or someone that was helpless and could not defend themselves. I could not, however, just murder someone because I found their existence inconvenient to me at the time.
2007-11-20 08:16:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Murder- waiting for someone to come home and bash his head in--not just once, but more than would knock him out.
Shooting someone who stole your bf, by running over her with a car over and over-or poisoning her.
Killing-bashing in someone's head who climbed in YOUR window.
Killing-shooting at a bird and hitting a person.
Killing running over a person who staggered out in the road.
Killing-poisoning a person by under-cooking a turkey.
A person is just as dead, either way.
Intent makes it murder. Over-kill like stabbing someone 50 times-shows intent.
2007-11-20 08:19:14 · answer #7 · answered by Lottie W 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Murder is exactly as you say, with intent. This is to seperate it from state killing or defensive killing. An example would be if a criminial were to invade my home and try to harm me and my family, and I kill him, that is not considered murder. If I go into my bedroom and kill my wife while she sleeps because I hate her, that is murder.
The bible makes the distinction because man is not the taker of life, God is. He does allow the state to perform the task as necessary, which is why many Christians are in favor of capital punishment.
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2007-11-20 08:12:15 · answer #8 · answered by athanasius was right 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Personally, from my viewpoint, they are the same. (There is a diffrence to me between murder/kill and self defense...)
Maybe murder would be pure and with intent, where as kill is more sutble and over time. So murder would be the concrete way and in the now of destroying something or someone. Kill would be the abstract, mental way of destroying something...
2007-11-20 08:18:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
My views on the two is that murder is to take someones life when this person/s has done absolutely nothing to you in order for you to kill him/her. Pre-meditation is involved meaning it was planned or an act of malicious intent against the person/s which caused their death..
Kill to me means that a person/s have been killed, and you are involved in the killing of the person/s by omission of guilt or maliciousness towards this person. This is usually through an accident or your life has been threatened and you killed this person/s in order to save yourself through self defense.
2007-11-20 08:13:59 · answer #10 · answered by Sparkles 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋