Does any political office count?

What about school board or a principal?

What about a chess champion?

What if you’re the prime witness to a huge crime?

Military leaders? Chief of police?

Youtubers, podcasters?

CEO? Small bussiness owner? Manager of a store?

Does popularity matter, or is it only importance?

And lets say the leader of a country got killed, but its by their relative for, say, getting bulled as a kid, and the movive has nothing to do with their position of power? Does that count as an “assassination”?

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    if the death is actually only a means to an end and not the end itself

    I would restrict the intended end to institutional change—it’s not an assassination if you kill someone for their parking space, but it is if you kill them for their school board vote.

    Edit: I guess I’d also have to add killing someone purely for their notoriety.