Murder

Murder occurs when a person kills, with intention, an agent who did not consent to die, and who had intact boundaries. To kill in a Forfeiture is not murder. Examples are these: collection in proportion, in the mandate of a victim. A second example is self-defense against an attack that continues or is immediately credible. A third example is the end of an outlaw. Murder is unique in one manner: it destroys the only agent with the sovereign power to close the moral debt that it makes. The victim cannot collect, in retribution. The victim cannot release, in forgiveness. And the victim cannot give a mandate to a proxy. Thus murder makes permanent guilt that no one can close. Murder puts the offender outside the system of reciprocity.