Would it have been (morally) murder if a slave killed his master?

[Rand_Rover]

@AClockworkMelon

I think he meant “morally-justified homicide”.

@Der_Trihs

It means that the killing in question is morally unjustified.

So what does it mean for a homicide to be “morally justified”?

@orcenio

This is really a no brainer.

Like Der Trihs, I’d even go as far as to say that I think a slave has every right to kill anything that stands in their way to gaining freedom. It isn’t even a matter of dead person’s level of sainthood or whatever… If they, legitimately, pose a threat to a slave’s escape from slavery then they’re ‘fair game;’ be them man, woman or child.

Sick situation, but that’s not the slave’s fault.

So, if I live in a society with slavery, and I know that a particular slave has adopted your view, I would be morally justified (using your words–I don’t know what those words mean) if I killed that slave, right?