And if it is for the greater good, would it still be called murder?
And if it is called murder, then would the word "murder" really be such a bad thing?
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Depends, can you convince 12 people that it was justified?
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Well, it depends on your definition of murder, really. If you throw an innocent granny walking across the street onto a grenade (we'll assume for argument's sake that she is unwilling to lob herself onto the explosive), that's pretty much murder, and I don't see how you could rationalize it any other way. However, if you find yourself in hand to hand combat with an enemy in a time of war, and a grenade lands near the two of you, throwing him on the grenade doesn't seem so murderous.