I'd imagine that he means doing it to protect yourself and those you love, is killing.

Murdering is doing it for no purpose other than the anguish it creates for someone else.

 

a more confusing question is whats the difference between murder and manslaughter?...aside from manslaughter having a lesser punishment

 

Manslaughter generally is unintentional. Say, a car accident where you were driving legally; got in an accident and killed someone. That'd be "Involuntary Manslaughter".

Drunk driving and getting into an accident, killing someone, might be "Voluntary Manslaughter", as in you didn't mean to go out and kill someone that evening, but you knew it could possibly happen due to your intoxication.

The same could be held with say, a Bar Fight that went bad. You end up killing him, and you started the fight, so it wasnt self defense. You didn't mean to kill him, but you did mean to beat the shit out of him and knew he would be seriously harmed. So that could be either Voluntary Manslaughter, or if they really hated you they'd try for 3rd Degree Murder.

Murder is when you intend to kill somebody, the degree's vary on if you knew who, why, and how you planned it out.

Third Degree would be something similar to the bar fight, or a little more premeditated, but not much.

Second Degree would be something along the lines of... you were pissed off and firing a gun in public and you shot somebody (bad example).

First Degree would be you planned it to a T, and went and executed the crime.


Hope that clears up most of it.

 

i thought that he was making up that there is a diff between the two. i guess that our "kill" and "murder" roughly equate to different hebrew verbs. i see incongruities in all of this, but i'm not here to start an arguement

thx again robert