So I was arguing against the death penalty...

Now killing someone who is threatening you or threatening someone else might be the lesser evil...

But killing someone who is imprisoned as an act of state-sanctioned revenge is the greater... even if they are guilty, adding another evil only adds another evil.

I didn’t use the word murder, but a supporter of the death penalty claimed I was “misus[ing] the definition of "revenge" and "murder,”“

If you check the actual use, people have always used the word murder to mean killing another person. It seems Orwellian to only use the word murder to mean killing another person without state sanction.

I remember one discussion on the old Jesus Radicals forum about murder in self-defense. and the death penalty is a world away from self-defense.

If you check the etymology, it comes from a root meaning death, not one meaning without state sanction.

And then they claimed I was misusing the word “Orwellian,” too...