re: #697 Guanxi88

Easiest thing in the world, my friend - not all who take life are killers; not all who kill are murderers. You need to learn to draw distinctions.

But all who kill are killers. That’s what words mean.

Case in point - a soldier or one who takes a life in self-defense is not a killer or a murderer, from a legal perspective. Conservative - and even Orthodox- rabbinate acknowledge that there are cases in which an abortion can be a necessary act - it would therefore be a taking of life under the aspect of self-defense, and therefore not homicide.

A soldier who takes a life is definitely a killer. I don’t know where you get an impression otherwise. He’s not a murderer. He’s a killer. That’s what the word means. That you killed.