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Jul 17, 2006 11:37

I had this idea for a video game. The premise is that an action is considered to be a moral action if the majority of human beings in the world believe that the given action is moral ( Read more... )

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inbetweenhells July 18 2006, 03:13:45 UTC

plus once you go around killing people, they will want to get revenge and kill you, and thus murder becomes justified in their minds, and before you know it the majority opinion will still sway to your side. isn't that how war goes? but then again noone ever gets 'murdered' in a war, the just get 'killed'. explain to me the difference

krypta July 18 2006, 15:01:40 UTC

Murder is unlawful killing. You can debate if killing in war is lawful or not but it is not a closed case either way.
I consider abortion not to be murder because I do not think there is anything unlawful about it. Even if it were illegal I would not consider it unlawful.

inbetweenhells July 18 2006, 20:15:42 UTC

so if there were no law there would be no murder?

krypta July 18 2006, 20:57:42 UTC

In the legal sense of the word yes, there would be no murder if their were no laws about killing.

But on another level, no, murder would still exist regardless. The last sentance of my reply to your comment was supposed to address this. Illegal and unlawful may not be synonyms in this context.