Le 2011/04/25 19:30, Patrick Elliott a écrit :
> On 4/25/2011 12:28 PM, andrel wrote:
>> Thou shalt not kill. Ok, but is that in
>> general or only humans?
>
> To be clear, the term actually used in the less mangled Jewish version
> is "Murder", which specifically refers to something you do to other
> people. Mind, "people" may be a bit uncertain a term, since it can often
> be "chosen people". Or, as one person put it, "Love thy neighbor
> literally meant the person living right next door to you, not
> always/ever the one living in the next village."

Considering that the worg "gentile" in Ebraic means "Not of the Peoples" 
or "Not Human" as "Human" = "The Peoples" = "The Chosen Ones".

In the /old/ times, for a Jew, killing a non Jew was not a murder.
BUT, the same distinction was also on the part of most other nations. 
For the Egyptians, any non-Egyptian was mostly cattle.

It started to change with the Greecks under Alexander the GReat and his 
Empire building and continued with the Roman Empire. When you start 
conquering other nations and integrating them into your nation, you can 
no longer afford to view other nations as non-peoples.

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