Do Not Murder - precept from the Way to Happiness ost races, from the most ancient times to the present, have prohibited murder and punished it heavily. There is a considerable difference between these two words kill and murder . I am sure you can see many illustrations of the difficulties raised by a prohibition against all killing. One can easily see that in this age of violent weaponry, murder would be all too easy. One could not exist in a society where oneself or one's family or friends were at the mercy of some who went about casually taking lives.
Murder justly bears the highest priority in social prevention and retaliation.
The stupid, the evil and the insane seek to solve their real or imagined problems with murder. And they have been known to do it for no reason at all. Get behind any demonstrably effective program that handles this threat to mankind and push. Your own survival could depend upon it. The way to happiness does not include murdering your friends, your family, or yourself being murdered.