(March 14, 2015 at 5:01 am)RobertE Wrote:(March 13, 2015 at 8:18 pm)Sterben Wrote: In that kind of culture some primitive actions are needed to keep the stability of the middle eastern region. Saddam Hussein& Muammar gaddafi, in the case of these men, yes they were butchers and evil, but they did know how to control a radical population. You can't walk into a region and expect to make them peaceful and united through a military front. Peace by force is not peace it's a perversion of the peace process.
Now, as far this woman being stoned to death and yes Catholics they do actions similar to them. Shaming and dis-owning there children who were impregnated without being married. Think about it; being a teen, and being pregnet this is a nightmare case already; add the shaming of your parents and community then being dis-owned and thrown out. That's almost like being stoned death in the west.
So, disowning their daughters for getting pregnant without being married is like being stoned to death...? Nope, I cannot see the comparison to be honest. Whatever happens, if the woman gets disowned, there is still a small chance that they could reconciliate a few years down the line. However, if you stone your own daughter to death, then the possibilities of reconciliation have long since gone. It is a stone age practice and should get in line with the 21st fecking century. You lost a little bit of credibility just by trying to compare the two.
I don't see the point here, for any problem it's possible to find a significant worse one, but disowning your daughter for making use of her free agency is terrible and primitive, b sides being sexist and misogynistic
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you