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I would say that your influence would have to extend to the thousands, or tens of thousands in order to be imprtant enough to be assassinated. it certainly is a relief to know that I for one, will never be assassinated.

I hardly know how to determine true level of importance. In my view, nobody is that important, because we are all equally important. The assassins are playing a game that cannot be won. You don't change anything by taking out a person, not even a President or country leader. They can be replaced. No matter the job or position, there is always someone ready to move into a vacant one. It is the perception that the next higher up position is always better. I hardly think there is much difference betwen assissination and murder.

Murder becomes assassination when the victim is someone known to the perpetrator only by reputation usually political. So if you kill your spouse, it doesn't matter if they are a prominent political leader, it isn't an assassination. On the other hand, if you kill a homeless person that you saw in a documentary on homelessness and the reason you killed them had something to do with the information in the documentary, it would be an assassination.