Posted on 06/26/2023 9:11:43 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Maybe what they mean is something menacing, abjectly evil, apparently demonic.
There is a strong satanist cult in Arizona. Back in 1993 they were finding severed heads outside of Tucson to the north. With the ever expanding Mexican population and growing cartel influence the stink and horror in of the Santa Muerte cult is growing.
I have tuned the Salt River many times since the 1980s. It is a beautiful, rugged place.
I had several friends attending ASU in the 70s. I’m glad I never went there - I probably never would have graduated. LOL. Oh, the fun we had. Greek row was a BLAST.
Sorry, fraternity row.
I know what malicious means. It is not a term used in a legal sense related to the breaking of a law.
Murder does that and failing to say murder should cause people to ask why they would avoid the specific legal charge that would apply.
Murder is killing someone with intent, implied as a malicious act, manslaughter is by accident.
SO I say again, why not say murder?
That would usually be described as a depraved act or intent, that is the common legal term.
Malicious is redundant to murder but avoids using the legal term and calling it a murder, it muddies the water.
Maybe it was suicide
One of the top ten physics departments in the country.
Of course, you have to cope with the fact that it is in California...
Ya, most 18 yr olds celebrating their graduation commit suicide by throwing themselves on a bonfire.
Why are you trying so hard to justify this very strange way of stating something horrible?
Obviously, there is a reason they said it that way, pretending it was some innocent intent does not do the boy or the family justice, in fact, it is cold and heartless to do so.
I would start the investigation by finding out who paid their electric bill with the cremated fellow’s debit card. But I’m not a detective by trade but have listened to ever listenable CBS Mystery Theater.
No one said most do, maybe he is the first that ever did it.
My point is you do not know anything about it. Smarten up.
I do know people do not get charged with “malicious” and that murder means someone took someone else’s life maliciously (in the legal sense) where as manslaughter means in some form of accident.
So you are wrong that I do not know anything and equally wrong for trying to quash someone questioning such language. How exactly have you determined I do not know anything? Since you went there, how do you know enough to tell me what I am allowed to question and how much I know? I guess you think you know something? I suspect you do not even understanding the rhetorical failings with stating a person does not know “anything” when in a debate.
Your point seems to be no one should question oddities and just accept what the government tells you?
You can choose to go NPC and give up critical thinking. I prefer to actually try to challenge those things that are questionable to begin with.
You do not know any details or background on the current guy in a bonfire case.
What does that have to do with using the word malicious as to opposed to calling it murder?
Killed a person with malicious intent is murder, do so b accident is manslaughter.
Why is it wrong to question the law enforcement’s use of the word “malicious” as to opposed to calling it a homicide or potential murder? Words matter and the use of the word was meant to convey a meaning, what exactly was the meaning? Do you think somehow someone committed a malicious act on this young man and it was not either murder or manslaughter?
What reason would law enforcement have for not using the legal criminal language?
I for one would be very upset if a loved one was murdered and police knew it but avoided calling it a murder.
I was in a co-ed dorm on campus but I had to move out in order to get some sleep!
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