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Originally Posted by Kevin
Respect their culture? Bullcrap.. when a culture has norms such as this, other civilizations are not required to respect them. We ought to condemn them.
This sort of punishment could only be carried out by barbaric animals.
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have to say i completely agree - there does come a point in time, when despite being respectful to cultural differences, some practices are just plain
wrong. human rights violations are just unacceptable to me. as a global society we do have some responsibility to point out these violations, and if necessary, intervene. WWII, bosnia, rwanda, darfur, etc...
200 lashes
will likely kill this young woman. 90 would have been bad enough and certainly caused significant bodily harm and disfigurement.
this is NOT an appropriate response of a legal system that is supposed to protect its citizens. even worse, when you think of this as a legal system who's laws possibly contribute to the actual crime. Should we have strict laws to prevent sexual predators or are they breeding
more sexual predators by virtue of not allowing normal developmentally appropriate interactions between the sexes?
Its like sex education in this country. By taking an abstinence only educational perspective, you get a bunch of ignorant kids who teach each other or make stuff up. I’m not saying that disallowing interaction with opposite sex non-relatives makes rapists. But I am saying that it could lead to situations where woefully ignorant people make horrible decisions.
So again, why would you punish the victim? It DOES NOT make sense.