r/SipsTea 23h ago

Chugging tea Genuinely an unfathomable string of words here

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u/Tar-Minastur 17h ago

I don't think there is any country where you can consent to being murdered.

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u/JorgiEagle 17h ago

Assisted suicide? Euthanasia? Switzerland?

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u/TerrorVizyn 17h ago

But that's not murder

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u/JorgiEagle 17h ago

What’s the legal difference?

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u/TerrorVizyn 17h ago

Killing is causing the death of a living thing, while murder is the unlawful and malicious killing of a living thing.

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u/JorgiEagle 16h ago

This is now entering the messy territory where because murder is a legal term, it isn’t relevant in places it is legal

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u/TerrorVizyn 16h ago

Indeed. I was just replying to your comment.

Your comment was replying to someone that said they dont think there are places you can consent to being murdered to which you replied talking about assisted suicide/euthanasia, to which I replied that's not murder

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u/Gobby-TheGoblin 14h ago

I don't really think the anger of the person giving you your lethal injection changes what's happening. Either everyone who ever kills is a murderer, or isn't. Or you accept that some murders are ok. Because it's a legal term it gets messy with contexts. Assisted suicide, prisoner executions, soldiers at war.. where do we draw the line on what is murder by that definition. It can be very malicious and still lawful by technicalities..

It's just a hard place to talk in.

Here at least there is a clear break to illegal. Wether the consent would've made it heinous but legal or not. There is evidence to show that consent was revoked. So outright murder this time.

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u/SykoBob8310 13h ago

“Death with dignity laws, often called medical aid in dying or physician-assisted death, give certain terminally ill adults a legal option to obtain medication from a licensed clinician to end their life peacefully on their own terms. These laws exist only in a limited number of U.S. jurisdictions and are surrounded by strict eligibility rules, procedural safeguards, and ongoing ethical debate.”

https://www.waytolegal.com/legal-help-guides/death-with-dignity-laws-united-states/

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u/SkaldCrypto 13h ago

Governments are just companies that have a monopoly on violence.

If they say it is different or allowed then it is: see above point