Is Killing Wrong?

",Thou shalt not kill", is arguably the most basic moral and legal principle in anysociety. Yet while some killers are pilloried and punished, others are absolved and acquitted, andstill others are lauded and lionized. Why? The traditional answer is that how killers are treateddepends on the nature of their killing, whether it was aggressive or defensive, intentional oraccidental. But those factors cannot explain the enormous variation in legal officials' andcitizens' responses to real-life hom ...