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Originally Posted by ken0042
Once again; I question what is normal; and what is the extreme. In our news last week; they revisited the case of the 15 year old girl who gave birth out of wedlock and threw the baby in the trash.
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Gruesome and heinous acts are committed round the world, yes. I think the difference lays in that actions like that are not condoned in "civilized" society and in the excessivness of the peoples responses.
If that girl had been in Afghanistan, she very well might have been murdered by her family for just having pre-marital sex, let alone enough of it to get pregnant. The murder may even have been "acceptable" by their socitial and cultural standards as well.
Certainly not all people of the far side of the globe are of the opinion that honor killings and suicide bombings and example-murders for the sake of cultural preservance are acceptable. There doesn't seem to be a shortage of that mentality either though.