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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Thats a total cop out.
We can't relate to it because its evil and twisted. Its an archaic system that has no place anywhere today and to justify even in the slightest way by saying 'its their way' is moral cowardice. I'd also add that at least the supreme court of India has labeled Honor killings as an act of barbarism, demanding punishment for murder. I
Its evil and wrong, period.
And its still evil and wrong, period. We can understand the twisted morality which makes it acceptable, it doesn't mean we have to accept or even tolerate it. Its bad enough they do it routinely in their pseudo theocracies, but now they are doing it in our suburbs.
We can stop it in the West by dropping the multi-cultural bullshit. If you come here, you are welcome, you now will assimilate with OUR culture. If you want to kill your daughters for running off with a Christian, get the hell out.
I'm personally rather done with the concept that we can tolerate this type of thinking in our own borders. And we can stop it, without force, they can get out.
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I have never stated that it was not evil and twisted. I myself stated that the act is illegal in most of home states that it is practiced in - but it is erratically enforced because of cultural standards that we can not relate to
on our own terms - my exact words, more than once. I think that is a shortsighted tendency that does no more than toss a little mental 'poo-poo' over the problem. I have not uttered one word in defense of this practice in any way, shape or form and I always think it interesting when people try to paint you into a corner for not sharing one or the other of two diametric possibilities.
I have simply questioned the way we approach it. I don't understand your objection to that.
And also, since it bears clarifying one time, in the entire scheme of things, when you take in the massive Muslim and Hindu populations on the planet, this practice is not chronically widespread and there are many activists at work in the home countries where it exists who are trying to stop it.
I do not 'understand' it. I do not 'understand' this concept of family honor. Yet, I do not 'understand' people who believe it is their right to shoot someone who is running away with their television, either (they exist - I know - I've talked to them!).
I just want to make it clear that I will never support or endorse or show understanding for murder, regardless of where it is happening. But I will
always assert that there are minds in the world that I can never understand due to the way I was raised and shown to see the world, and this is as much true for all of us as it is for a man with a 1000-year-old view of family honor.