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I agree 100%, but I was never discussing what should be legal or illegal.. Obviously any murder should be illegal. I don't think anyone would disagree with that.
That doesn't change my opinion that sometimes murder is needed to affect change and sometimes it's even the morally right thing to do..
You honestly thought I was advocating for making murder legal?
I challenge you to find a single person arguing in favor of making murder legal. I've never seen or heard anyone do that.
I think it can be needed sometimes throughout history when the inequality between rich and poor becomes too great, that doesn't mean I think it should be legal..
Back when slaves were legal it was illegal to kill a slave owner. I understand that and I think that's how it needed to be. You can't have laws that killing someone is legal.
On the other hand I don't morally condemn the slaves that rose up and actually did kill their "owners".
I absolutely can say something should be illegal but in certain cases I'm cool with it happening.
No I did not gloss over that. I'm not sure how you could miss my point that much.
I think my example is entirely relevant. The reason I sometimes condone murder is when I don't find it morally wrong, so obviously that's also what the discussion is about.
You're whole argument about not being able to condone a criminal act without having to change the laws makes very little sense to me.