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Feel free to explain how this was an assassination and not a murder
Pretty sure assassin roughly means person who you hire to kill people.
The difference is effectively one of motive and contract.
If I'm personally wronged by the victim and I personally plan to kill them myself, that's first degree murder.
If I don't leave the house intending to kill someone, but end up in a fight or situation where I end up intending to cause harm to someone (even if it's protecting myself), and end up killing someone, that's generally second degree murder.
Now if I'm wronged by someone, plan to have them killed, but don't want to do it myself, so I set up a contract with a hit man and pay money to have a target killed. That's assassination.
It's an assassination because the dead person had way more social|political|economic power than the killer.
So... only bad power seeking people that cross those they have tangible power over to the point of vengeance.
Fuck, in this hellscape of corruption and captured governments world? I'm sold. You should sell the concept of assassination more often. You're good.
Yeah, I'm not sure why the downvotes on my previous comment. "Assassination" is the "privilege" of the powerful.
Assassinations are typically politically motivated. We don't know what his motivation was yet, so calling it an assassination is jumping to conclusions.
Because apparently noting what makes this killing different from others means you love slobbing on CEO knob, or something. That's my takeaway from this thread so far.
You seem to be under a false belief of what defined an assassination. Is it an assassination every time a poor person kills a rich person?