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Mac and Cephus take the literal definition of murder to the extreme, arguing that dictators do not murder unless (as mac pointed out) convicted in an international court of justice.
What is your take? Should we be blinded by literalism and refrain from calling these men murderers, or is it necessary to denounce them as murderers for unjustly taking the lives of their own citizens?
If murder is the illegal or unlawful killing of another; then a dictator cannot murder as it is not illegal nor unlawful for him to do as he likes in his country of sovereignty.