User blog comment:Donkeykongcountry1994/sympathetic murderer/@comment-26884760-20160402192443

"sympathetic murderer" is a horrible term, murder is not sympathetic.. regardless of excuses.. if you kill someone in self-defence it is rarely considered murder and when I hear the word "murder" it almost always invokes the act of deliberately killing another living being, often in cold blood..

murder is never pretty, a murderer is never truly sympathetic.. no matter your personal views on violence the willing execution of another life form when you have an option not to do so is morally wrong.

don't get me started on people that kill bullies, abusers etc.. that's a completely different topic : the term "murderer" implies, to me, a cold-blooded criminal and thus I can never find them sympathetic..

there are sympathetic killers.. who kill out of self-defence, justified revenge or even to save others.. they are not, in my view, in the same ethical scale as "murderers".