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ai123 posted...

The legal concepts codify our understanding of justifiable and unjustifiable killing. They didn't invent it.

Humans definitely invented the concept of murder. Murder in itself is a concept that varies based on a countries legal system, who is doing the killing, and who is the authority that gets to classify it as lawful.

For example when a cop kills people, legally speaking it more times than not doesn't get classified as murder in the courts because it gets classified as a lawful killing. Even when we the people would most certainly call the cops unjustified, and in our opinions should be unlawful. The people don't get to classify it as murder (unlawful killing), only the stronger authority does which tends to be the government.

Or easy low hanging fruit examples of senseless death of countries or groups killing other groups of people they deem lesser humans. But the former views themselves as not murderers, and history showed was well within their laws to kill, therefore not being labeled unlawful.