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In legal terms? No, that's not how it works. Homicide means "the killing of one person by another". There are lots of types of homicide, including murder, self-defense , manslaughter etc. Self-defense is not typically classified as murder if reasonable force was used, and depending on where you are that might not matter either. Killing in war can be called murder or not, depending on who is doing it :P
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All murders are homicides but not all homicides are murder.
The term homicide is sometimes used synonymously with murder, homicide is broader in scope than murder. Murder is a form of criminal homicide; other forms of homicide might not constitute criminal acts.
Don't ask how Virgil Manly knows.
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I dont think there is a collective answer to this, it depends on the person's opinion. I personally believe that it isn't murder if you are defending yourself or someone else from someone with a lethal weapon (knife, bat, gun etc.) and I think it would depend upon the severity of the situation.
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