(February 24, 2012 at 12:25 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Which means it technically is homicide; the problem with this rebuttal is that "tantamount" means equivalent. The fact is that there are many different types of homicide, of which murder is only one. They may be considered morally equivalent, but the fact is that they're not the same.From Google:
"Equivalent in seriousness to; virtually the same as"
Bolding mine. I've never seen "tantamount" used as a replacement for "equivalent". Maybe things are different where you come from though.
