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Conversation Questions on Murder

1)

Why do humans murder?

2)

Is the death penalty murder?

3)

Is it ever OK to kill someone?

4)

Is killing someone in self-defence murder?

5)

In your wildest rage, anger, jealousy, etc, are you capable of murder?

6)

Is abortion murder?

7)

What is the difference between assassination, murder and manslaughter?

8)

If you saw someone very close to you murder someone, would you turn them in to the police?

9)

What’s the difference between ‘kill’ someone and ‘murder’ someone?

10)

If a person kills their clone, is it murder or suicide?

1)

What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘murder’?

2)

Is killing animals for meat and fur murder?

3)

“It was murder on the roads getting home tonight.” Is the rush hour in your town also murder?

4)

In English, people say “I’ll murder him/her” when they are angry with someone. What do you think of this?

5)

What high profile murder has happened in your town?

6)

Do you think there’s too much murder on TV?

7)

If you saw a murder at close hand, how would you deal with the murderer?

8)

What would you do if you discovered your new partner, neighbour or flatmate had just been released from prison for mass murder?

9)

Is it murder to take someone’s life in a war?

10)

How would the world be different today if leaders such as Ghandi, Martin Luther King, JFK and Malcom X had not been murdered?