Unpopular Opinion
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An executioner is not a murderer if the condemned is guilty.
Just because the murder is state-sanctioned does not mean it's not a murder.
That's literally what it means, actually.
You don't get to randomly redefine words because you don't like what they mean for whatever reason.
Do you believe any and all state-sanctioned murders are justified and legal?
No such thing.
Sorry to invoke Godwin's law here, but are you telling me that during the Holocaust that the Jewish people weren't murdered?
Are you telling me Ukraine and Palestine civilians aren't being killed?
Depends. There were plenty of interpersonal killings of Jews during the early stages of the Holocaust that would easily count as murder. The state-sanctioned death camps were not murders, even if it's also true that murders took place within the camps.
Of course not. Being killed is not being murdered. There are Ukrainians and Palestinians being both killed and murdered right now, but no western understanding of the word "murder" can accurately be applied to an active war front.
How poor is your reading comprehension to come to that conclusion and have you considered remedial courses at a community college? It's never too late.
What about you calling a country that's being invaded 'an active warfront?'
Ukraine is being invaded, it's not a war front.