1) There is no possible good outcome from firing a rifle at a persons head
2) A rifle has no will. A person does. Telling someone that b is having an affair is simply *not* the same as firing a rifle. If you honestly believe it is then you are either a psychopath who is incapable of seing the humanity in other people or a sevely delused solopsist who must wonder what he is doing arguing with himself on this forum. or possibly an extreem case of misanthopism where you hate everyone so much you deny them their humanity.
In any case, the two are simply not equivelent. When you pull the trigger on a rifle there is no chance the rifle will feel sorry for the person you are aiming at and take them out to dinner.
Now if you drug someone into unconciousness and drag them arround to make their body go through the motions of killing another person *that* would be akin to using a rifle, in which case you are most definitely guilty, whether you succeeded in killing them or not.
2) A rifle has no will. A person does. Telling someone that b is having an affair is simply *not* the same as firing a rifle. If you honestly believe it is then you are either a psychopath who is incapable of seing the humanity in other people or a sevely delused solopsist who must wonder what he is doing arguing with himself on this forum. or possibly an extreem case of misanthopism where you hate everyone so much you deny them their humanity.
In any case, the two are simply not equivelent. When you pull the trigger on a rifle there is no chance the rifle will feel sorry for the person you are aiming at and take them out to dinner.
Now if you drug someone into unconciousness and drag them arround to make their body go through the motions of killing another person *that* would be akin to using a rifle, in which case you are most definitely guilty, whether you succeeded in killing them or not.