Quote from Leslie Knope in The Possum
Leslie Knope: Hey, April, can I talk to you about this situation with the possum? April: No. Leslie Knope: Okay, hypothetically, if you were going on a mission to, say, catch a guilty whale. And while you were catching the whale you saw something else that may also be another whale, and you were like, "what?" But then you thought, maybe it's not a whale? Maybe it's a big fish. Maybe it's a submarine with a face painted on it. The point is, If I kill the first whale, am I technically a murderer?