Does any political office count?

What about school board or a principal?

What about a chess champion?

What if you’re the prime witness to a huge crime?

Military leaders? Chief of police?

Youtubers, podcasters?

CEO? Small bussiness owner? Manager of a store?

Does popularity matter, or is it only importance?

And lets say the leader of a country got killed, but its by their relative for, say, getting bulled as a kid, and the movive has nothing to do with their position of power? Does that count as an “assassination”?

    • Poojabber@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 day ago

      Do you go to college to become an assassin? How does one become an assassin without first assassinating someone? This is a real “chicken or the egg” type of situation…

      • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
        3·
        23 hours ago

        The term “assassin” likely has roots in hashshāshīn (“hashish smokers or users”), a mispronunciation of the original Asāsiyyūn, but not a mispronunciation of Assasiyeen (pronounced “Asāsiyyeen”, the plural of “Asasi”). Originally referring to the methods of political control exercised by the Assasiyuun, one can see how it became “assassin” in several languages to describe similar activities anywhere.

        Apparently by smoking.