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I think it is fair to draw a distinction between murder and whatever-you-call-it-when-you-eat-things-that-can-suffer. I think murder has a specific connotation of killing something intelligent enough that you could have made a contract with it. Whether that's worse or not, I'm not sure. (Probably won't get universal consensus here, since the word "murder" predates any widespread concern for anything other than humans, but I think that's what I'd go with).
I don't think there's anything wrong with formulating a moral system that can survive the realization that certain animals are intelligent or that aliens exist. I think there's a good reason to make murder distinct from killing, but "because they are human" is a bad reason to draw moral distinctions. So unless I'm actually talking to "normal people" (instead of a blog of people dedicated to rationality) I don't see a reason to oversimplify my definitions.