No argument except for grammar. If permissible then we would not call it murder.
What you describe "BY ANY MEANS", we now do not allow. We have become slightly more civilized over time.
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We have become slightly more civilized over time?
You mean to say we do not look the enemy in the eye anymore and just sent a bomb to kill a few hudred anonymous individuals. Ask the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki if our killing methods have become more "civilized over time".
And then think of all the regimes who would love to get their hands on a nuclear device. Civilized??? My ass!!!
In Nature, killing is called "survival" (hunting for food). Not a court in the land would convict a tiger for killing an antelope. Nature makes no moral judgements who dies and who survives. If you survive to procreate, you have passed the test of "natural selection" and are worthy to be alive.
And make no mistake, animals have strict moral rules (unless they are hungry).
And most importantly, they only take what they need., considerably more moral than what humans take in excess and justify it under the freedom of Capitalism. Such a pretty name for the practice of Parasitoidism.
But human laws are designed for a different purpose. If we steal food we usually you get off with a handslap. If it stealing something valuable it becomes Grand-Theft, we're getting really serious now. If you steal someone's house and land, it's called "eminent domain". If it is just to "conquer"another country (a word that does not exist in nature) we call it "war". All legal and encouraged by pomp and circumstance, declarations, threaths, an occasional act of sabotage. "9/11".
Civilized? Humans are the least civilized species on earth. We don't play by the rules of nature. Of course the Earth couldn't care less and the insects are just waiting for their time. They have been waiting for a few million years already. A coupla more millenia, who cares? God? Oh I forgot, when humans are gone, their gods will have gone with them, wherever.