Murder
The deliberate killing of an agent who did not consent to die and whose boundaries stood intact. Killing within a Forfeiture -- proportionate collection under a victim's mandate, self-defense against an ongoing or immediately credible attack, the ending of an outlaw -- is not murder. Murder is unique among harms: it destroys the only agent with sovereign power to close the moral debt it creates. The victim cannot collect (retribution) or release (forgiveness), and cannot grant a mandate to a proxy. Murder therefore creates permanent, uncloseable guilt and places the offender outside the system of reciprocity.
Frequently asked
What about killing in war or by the state?
If the person killed did not consent to die and their boundaries stood intact, the framework calls it murder regardless of who does the killing. A uniform or a flag does not change the logic. Killing within a Forfeiture (self-defense, proportionate punishment of an actual offender, ending an outlaw) is the only exception — and that requires a specific victim and specific harm, not a collective decision to wage war.