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Re:Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denial... by ziddoap on Friday December 13, 2024 @10:20AM (#42409203)
>Well, if a killing is ethically justified, it isn't murder.

Are you saying this as an opinion, or is this an established thing? I thought murder was an "unlawful killing without justification or valid excuse" (paraphrased from Wikipedia), whether one finds it ethical or not is sort of beside the point. Especially because there is no objectively correct ethics.

But, I'm not a lawyer, this is just my understanding.

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Re:Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denial... by bombcar on Friday December 13, 2024 @11:26AM (#42409970)
I would say you have to be careful and specific - as "murder" is usually the domain of the law and "ethically justified* is the domain of ethics.

It's quite easy to come up with situations where the law declares a killing as unequivocally murder yet everyone agrees it was ethically justified. The opposite can happen too.

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