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Sahuagin posted...

there are lots of kinds of killing that aren't murder,

Because the law says they aren't. Just like the death penalty. The key difference being that the judiciary body is excusing other people in those cases, as opposed to itself, so there's a little more circular logic going on with the death penalty.

Basically, it doesn't make much sense to interpret a moral reference text as saying "killing's only bad if your local laws say so," since that's just rendered redundant by those local laws.
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