The state having a Monopoly on violence is sort of the point of a social contract. That being said I’m not a proponent of the death penalty. Life is sacred.
You can even make that argument from two different angles: self defense and triage. Even if a sperm and an egg become a ‘human’, with all the rights n’ shit that come with it, the second they join, we still have multiple precedents for legally and socially-acceptably killing that ‘person’.
All killing is murder, states are just gangs big enough to have a PR team and the ability to indoctrinate the youth into following their rules.
Good on South Carolina for making that more plain.
The state having a Monopoly on violence is sort of the point of a social contract. That being said I’m not a proponent of the death penalty. Life is sacred.
homicide*
Murder is just homicide that’s illegal; and legality should never be conflated with morality. In any context, not just killing.
Being sanctioned by the state doesn’t make it moral; and being illegal doesn’t make it immoral (and yes, homicide can be moral).
I tell forced birthers even if I am murdering a conscious being, I’m justified in protecting myself from unnecessary, nonconsented harm
You can even make that argument from two different angles: self defense and triage. Even if a sperm and an egg become a ‘human’, with all the rights n’ shit that come with it, the second they join, we still have multiple precedents for legally and socially-acceptably killing that ‘person’.