“You are splitting hairs in order to defend CNN.”
I see it more as defending language.
OK. Murder = Securities Fraud. Some defense of the language. If I am ever in trouble, and need defense, please don’t bother.
Homosexuality “is a” sin.
Using the “is a” relationship. Sin is the superclass, and the other two are subclasses. The “is a” relationship does not equate the two subclasses.
“In knowledge representation, object-oriented programming and design, is-a or is_a or is a (subsumption) is a relationship where one class A is a subclass of another class B (and so B is a superclass of A). In other words, Type A is a subtype of type B when A’s speciï¬cation implies B’s speciï¬cation. That is, any object (or class) that satisï¬es A’s speciï¬cation also satisï¬es B’s speciï¬cation, because B’s speciï¬cation is weaker.[1]”