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Originally Posted by rubecube
Killing someone because your "culture" has normalized murder and misogyny is an entirely different beast than say committing theft because you were born into poverty and the system was stacked against you achieving your way out of it.
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I always have an issue with using argument of the system being stacked against you and, therefore, you should be given special considerations to even things out. The system is always stacked against someone in some way (better health, better mind, better inheritance, better neighbourhood, better looks, better talents, better skills etc.) That's life. Where do these considerations start and end?
So, if someone is raised in a culture where honour killing is, well, honourable, why should he not be given a special consideration? Obviously, you draw the consideration line at killing and sexual crimes. But why there? Why not at beating someone up for speaking to the police because that's what we always do to rats in this community? Or at ruining someone's property out of envy?