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> I'd argue it's better we all just agree these questions are ambiguous and should in principle be outside of the power of the state to mediate

Murder is legal, then, and there's no point having a state at all.

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Murder is directly and non-consentually harming another person. Having a traditional family or using social media are choices you can, in our current world, make or not make for yourself. That's an important - and I think pretty philosophically clear - distinction.

And FWIW if the killing was consensual (i.e. euthenasia) then I think it should be legal.

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