Ah, sort of, yes. I was using murder in a general term, as a synonym for killing, which it isn't, and I shouldn't have done, but it's commonly done. Manslaughter, however, is a legal definition, at least in British law, and a lesser crime than murder: it generally means it was either done in:
a) a position of diminished responsibility, usually on grounds of mental health, or being put under duress;
or b) provocation - both in the actual fact of the provocation happening, and the fact of that provocation being enough to make a reasonable man act as he did. That provocation is usually considered to be acts of violence against the defendant, but can also be considered as acts against a third party.
That is why I would uses manslaughter to refer to what you did, but not murder. Or I shouldn't have, if we were talking in strictly legal concepts, called it murder. Not that there's any law here, but that's why I used manslaughter as a term.
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Ah, sort of, yes. I was using murder in a general term, as a synonym for killing, which it isn't, and I shouldn't have done, but it's commonly done. Manslaughter, however, is a legal definition, at least in British law, and a lesser crime than murder: it generally means it was either done in:
a) a position of diminished responsibility, usually on grounds of mental health, or being put under duress;
or b) provocation - both in the actual fact of the provocation happening, and the fact of that provocation being enough to make a reasonable man act as he did. That provocation is usually considered to be acts of violence against the defendant, but can also be considered as acts against a third party.
That is why I would uses manslaughter to refer to what you did, but not murder. Or I shouldn't have, if we were talking in strictly legal concepts, called it murder. Not that there's any law here, but that's why I used manslaughter as a term.
((ooc: and hurray, making me trawl the home office website at 5am. fun search histories. :D))