When you're accused of
premeditated murder they're accusing you of having planned out the
murder far in advance while waiting for the right time to go through
with it. This is seen as worse than spur of the moment murder. This type
of murder is in the news a lot now thanks to the Oscar buzz surrounding
the murder of Oscar Pistorius' girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp and the
question people are asking is "Why is it called PRE-meditated murder?"
After all, there's no such thing as "Postmeditated" murder so shouldn't
it just be called "Meditated murder"? The fact that you've thought it
out makes it meditated, so why emphasize the "Pre" part of it?
It's like
"Premature ejaculation". You can't call it "Pre" because once it
happens the intercourse is automatically over. There's no "Postmature
ejaculation". What is wrong with people? This isn't like babies where
you can have postmature birth. That makes premature birthing a valid
term, but meditating about a murder can only ever happen before so to
say "pre" is redundant and unncessary.
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