From:	Mad Hamish h_laws@**********.utas.edu.au
Subject:	Shadowrun and Butality (WAS: Getting nasty to your PCs)
Date:	Thu, 09 Sep 1999 17:21:11 +1000

At 00:21 9/09/99 -0400, abortion_engine wrote:
>> > When is murder okay and not okay?
>>
>> Real world or in RPGs?
>> Real world very few. RPGs and fiction it varies depending upon your exact
>> definition of murder and also the genre you are in.
>
>For you. Many people feel killing is justified in self-defense, or in
>wartime. Some think it's okay when you feel like it or need to. And some
>don't think it's ever okay. See Gandhi, above.

I'd like to point out that I see murder as a subset of killing. IMO killing
in self defence is not murder, nor are _most_ killings during a war.

Killing in self defence is acceptable to me _if_ the perceived threat is
enough to justify the response. Killing an opposition soldier during combat
is also acceptable to me.
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