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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You have a personal definition of them which is too broad.
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You join a group of friends who plan to rob a liquor store, knowing that someone might get hurt but not planning or wanting yourself to hurt anyone. The robbery goes off and the clerk gets killed. You didn't intend to hurt anyone, but it happened. You may not have wanted to murder anyone, but you are guilty of felony murder.
This is what we are talking about, except that about 1/5 (or 1/2, or 1/10, or 3/4 -- whatever) of the group is pretty inclined to kill someone if they get a chance, and no one in the group is particularly inclined to stop them. Under those circumstances, if you join that group, you have no business claiming later that you aren't a murderer because you didn't personally pull the trigger.
