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  • #16
    So, it sounds like it's not who you kill, but why you kill. Therefore, the killing of an abortion doctor by a religious nutjob is an assassination? It sounds to me like it would be.
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    • #17
      Originally posted by chegitz guevara
      Assassination is murder for political reasons. When the crown prince of Nepal murdered the King and all the rest of his family but one brother, it wasn't considered an assassination. Just a murder.
      So why do people talk about the assassination of Tupac Shakur?

      (NOTE: I will accept "because they're idiots" as an answer.)
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      • #18
        Governments assassinate rather then murder.

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly


          So why do people talk about the assassination of Tupac Shakur?
          Because it was 'The Man' who was down on him, or, he had secret knowledge of 9/11 .
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          • #20
            Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
            So why do people talk about the assassination of Tupac Shakur?

            (NOTE: I will accept "because they're idiots" as an answer.)
            Because they're idiots works for me.
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            • #21
              Originally posted by Xorbon
              So, it sounds like it's not who you kill, but why you kill. Therefore, the killing of an abortion doctor by a religious nutjob is an assassination? It sounds to me like it would be.
              That's my assertion, yes.
              Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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              • #22
                Originally posted by Xorbon
                So, it sounds like it's not who you kill, but why you kill. Therefore, the killing of an abortion doctor by a religious nutjob is an assassination? It sounds to me like it would be.
                I would say it isn't. Simple political motivations don't make someone an assassin, or else deadly voter intimidation would be an assasination. An interesting metric we could work with is if the killer was seeking a specific person rather then a representative of a group where one member would be as good as any other (ie. "it doesn't matter which abortion doctor is dead so long as a I kill one").

                But I'm not sure if the political reasons are neccearily important. John Hinckley is generally said to have attempted to assassinate Reagan, but that clearly wasn't for political reasons.

                Offhand, I'd say an assassination is the killing of a prominant political figure in a suprising manner (ambush poisoning or the like instead of military action or execution) because of thier political position.
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