There was a time in the USA past when a black man could be lynched for having the audacity of having black skin and being in the wrong place at the wrong time. There were plenty of trials for lynching where the murders were let go with little more justification then "look, his skin is too dark a color." Without a doubt there were times when one could reasonable expect to get away with murder in the USA, at least in the south.

This was in no way limited to the USA, or to people with black skin. Rather it was black people in pre cival rights eras of the USA, the Dalite in Hinduism, peasants in a feudal system, or slaves across a multitude of countries it all boils down to the same thing in the end. There is an undeniable history of certain minority groups being labeled as unclean, undesirable, or generally undeserving of basic civil rights.

There have also been similar cases for certain groups to be made out to be superiors or more 'moral' by virtue of their birth, or wealth, alone. The result was that if the supposedly 'better' group of folks choose to kill their one of their 'lessers', well that is their right is it not? A slave owner has the right to whip his slave to death if that slave has the audacity of not working up to the owners unreasonably high standard. If a Dalite is murdered by a Brahmin well it's no lose, Dalite after all brought the punishment of their birth on themselves in a past life so they probably deserved it. If a Peasant was killed by a noble is a king really going to bother to have someone investigate?

The point is it's pretty well documented in human history that we have a tendency to create cast systems that are uneven. An action that would be deemed horrible and unjust if inflicted by a member of group A onto group B may be deemed moral and right if group B does it to group A. It's a terrible mindset, but sadly a common one.

So yes, I think we have plenty of history saying an 'unjust' murder can be accepted, if inflicted upon the right group of undesirables. Though of course the society wouldn't call the murder unjust, it's completely just when we do it, it's only unjust when others do it to us you see.

There was a time in the USA past when a black man could be lynched for having the audacity of having black skin and being in the wrong place at the wrong time. There were plenty of trials for lynching where the murders were let go with little more justification then "look, his skin is too dark a color." Without a doubt there were times when one could reasonable expect to get away with murder in the USA, at least in the south.

This was in no way limited to the USA, or to people with black skin. Rather it was black people in pre civil rights eras of the USA, the Dalite in Hinduism, peasants in a feudal system, or slaves across a multitude of countries it all boils down to the same thing in the end. There is an undeniable history of certain minority groups being labeled as unclean, undesirable, or generally undeserving of basic civil rights.

There have also been similar cases for certain groups to be made out to be superiors or more 'moral' by virtue of their birth, or wealth, alone. The result was that if the supposedly 'better' group of folks choose to kill one of their 'lessers', well that is their right is it not? A slave owner has the right to whip his slave to death if that slave has the audacity of not working up to the owners unreasonably high standard. If a Dalite is murdered by a Brahmin well it's no lose, Dalite after all brought the punishment of their birth on themselves in a past life so they probably deserved it. If a Peasant was killed by a noble is a king really going to bother to have someone investigate?

The point is it's pretty well documented in human history that we have a tendency to create cast systems that are uneven. An action that would be deemed horrible and unjust if inflicted by a member of group A onto group B may be deemed moral and right if group B does it to group A. It's a terrible mindset, but sadly a common one.

So yes, I think we have plenty of history saying an 'unjust' murder can be accepted, if inflicted upon the right group of undesirables. Though of course the society wouldn't call the murder unjust, it's completely just when we do it, it's only unjust when others do it to us you see.