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Originally Posted by Montrealcorp
Yes .
Still an homicide .
Semantic .
If a state with capital punishment execute someone it still a « murder/homicide » even tho it’s been judged to « deserve » it through legal means .
Not all homicides are murder, though. This isn't playing semantics.
If you're a pacifist, fine. Be a pacifist and die on that hill.
I'm not gonna say there's no such thing as the justifiable killing of another person, though.
That said, should any killer be strictly scrutinized? Of course, but it's on the state to justify the use of force to detain them and punish them by proving that there was no reasonably perceived imminent threat to life.
Property is a gray area, confessedly so. Personally, I'm uncomfortable with a threat to property justifying the killing of someone. It's disproportionate and largely pointless in a society where everything is insured up the ass.
My point to Luciom is that abortion is either unjustifiably taking a life or it isn't. The circumstances of rape don't change the personhood status of the embryo/fetus.