Yes, a culture in which 'honour' killing women is illegal prosecuted & punished harshly is better than one in which it's legal or condoned.
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It's no good saying it's equivalent because the women are equally dead unless you truly think systemic human rights abuses don't matter.
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The 'violent offender acting against social norms' problem is a different one to the 'violent social norms' problem.
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Its extremely unlikely violent criminals will cease to exist. We don't judge a society by them but by how it responds to them.
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Ours tends to judge men committing violence against women more harshly than women committing violence against men. Male entitlement? Where?
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This doesn't mean that violent misogynistic men don't exist. It just means their attitudes & actions are in opposition to societal norms.
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This matters when working out how to deal with the problem. Blaming 'society' or 'men' is unlikely to be beneficial.
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This is so pertinent to an argument I had interjected myself in when I should have known better.
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That is the one I am responding to. I saw it. No point interjecting as you know.
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