Look, there is a difference between “murder” and “killing.” Murder is purposeful and indefensible, regardless of degree. By contrast, humans value professionals who kill ants, spiders, roaches, and termites. Killing is more nuanced. Soldiers kill the enemy, and that is the whole idea. Police kill bad guys, and that usually is very good. Store owners kill people who hold them up, and that usually is fabulous.
Other killings are not acceptable. Thus, accidental killings still are tortious, if not always criminal. Automobile and other roadway killings. Accidents at home.
And then there is Cuomo.
I do not quite fathom the mind of the quintessential New York Democrat liberal. I grew up in Brooklyn, surrounded by Democrats who really all were deeply conservative but had no other party to vote for in a one-party town that the Republicans abandoned, so they elected solid “Democrats for Reagan” types. Then I went to college at Columbia in Manhattan, where I suddenly was submerged into a liberal muck. All the non-STEM professors were radical left, and I was a social sciences major. The political science classes all had Marx and Engels on every reading list. By the time I graduated, I had been assigned to read Marx so often that I practically could quote his every anti-Semitic statement by heart. The leftists were everywhere. The professors in the religion department, with one exception, did not believe in G-d. The English language and other language and literature classes all had a profoundly leftward bent. When the Columbia Daily Spectator, the student-run newspaper, took an on-campus poll before the 1972 presidential elections, they found that something like 80 or 90 percent were voting for George McGovern against Nixon. I don’t even think Nixon came in second in the poll. He got beaten by the pro-Soviet Communist Party candidate, Gus Hall, the guy supported by Obama’s future CIA director, John Brennan. Nixon may even have come in third or fourth, behind some other communist. When the actual national election results came in, with Nixon winning the biggest landslide ever, people at Columbia were convinced it was because of ballot-stuffing, like the Democrat election judge in Philadelphia.
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