Tearing a hole into the flesh of a living creature is murder.
No, and you reveal yourself to be a morally confused -
possibly even morally bankrupt - and irrationally
hyperbolic person for thinking it is.
Murder is DEFINED, buddy, as the unlawful taking of a
human life. By definition, non-human animals cannot be
murdered.
It is true that the word murder has other non-legal
uses, as in "The Knicks murdered the Celtics last
night" to mean the Knicks scored a very lopsided
victory over the Celtics, but it is perfectly clear to
the literate English speaker that there is no *moral*
or legal meaning to the word in that context.
You, however, because you are an irrationally
sentimental, morally confused person, are playing
deliberately on the moral meaning that informs the
legal meaning. The law forbids the taking of a human
life by a private citizen, except in very limited
extenuating circumstances, precisely because it is
morally wrong. It is SO morally egregious that we need
a state-enforced law against it.
YOU feel, without really having thought it out, that
the killing by a human of a deer for food is morally
egregious. Because of that mushy feeling, that soppy
childlike sentimentality, you exaggerate and call it
"murder". It is not.
Don't stop, however. By calling it "murder", you
marginalize yourself, and it makes it that much easier
to ignore you in the public forum. It also makes it
that much easier for the whole "ar" agenda to be
dismissed, because people like you come to define it.
I hope this is helpful to you, and enables you to clear
up your moral confusion.
