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* An alien race in [[Tom Holt]]'s ''Falling Sideways'' had this as a rule. They also had a very high level of technology and the collective mindset of a [[Rules Lawyer]]. As in, it's OK to make people believe themselves to be frogs and eat nothing but flies, because they have a rule saying "Thou Shalt Not Kill" but not "Thou Shalt Not Make People Feed Themselves Horribly Inadequate Diets".
* In ''[[The Mysterious Benedict Society]]'' books, Kate's father, Milligan, always works to find solutions that would avoid killing his opponents (generally the vicious Ten Men) no matter how savagely they try to kill him or others. When asked about this by his daughter, Kate, he tells her simply "We're not like them." Indeed, when Kate later has the opportunity to toss a bomb at them and their leader, Mr. Curtain, she instead tosses it away into the water where it can do no harm.
* In the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' series, the rules here are… tricky. Wands are often wielded threateningly like guns, yet the actual Killing Curse, ''Avada Kedavra'', is extremely illegal, and using it ''possibly'' requires some degree of malice. (Perhaps not in the case of {{spoiler|Mrs. Weasley, although Bellatrix was threatening to kill her daughter}}, and almost certainly not for Snape's mercy-killing Dumbledore). Nonetheless, there are numerous other spells (like {{spoiler|''Sectrumsempra''}}) which would presumably also cause death under the right circumstances. In [[
{{quote|'''Lupin:''' "Harry, the time for Disarming is past! These people are trying to capture and kill you! At least Stun if you aren't prepared to kill!"
'''Harry:''' "We were hundreds of feet up! If I Stunned him and he'd fallen, he'd have died the same as if I'd used ''Avada Kedavra''!" }}
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