Ok... Are we talking about Treyvon? Are we talking active hostilities in war? Or are we talking about abortion?
Would anyone else like to split a completely unnecessary semantic hair where one does not need to be split?
I don’t think it’s unnecessary semantic hair-splitting. The pro-aborts always bring up the “hard cases”.
Applying the moral clarity of the distinction between murder and justifiable homicide to abortion makes clear the hollowness of their attempt to justify abortion on the whim of the woman, which is manifestly murder, on the basis of the “hard cases” that can reasonably be argued to be instances of justifiable homicide. (How reasonably varying from the case abortion of an ectopic pregnancies which I have never heard anyone on either side of the issue argue against — though folks on our side often express the hope that neonatology will someday reach the point that children in that unfortunate circumstance can be saved — to the rape-and-incest exception which produces divisions in the pro-life camp.)