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Get pregnant, get killed - the Jordanian honor code.

Discussion in 'Alley of Dangerous Angles' started by Blackhawk, Feb 28, 2004.

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  1. Abomination Gems: 26/31
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    How else do you get a country to change its attitude? There is NO other way other than the government enforcing new laws.

    First problem was the fact that the man would have no quarms about murdering his sister. Second problem was the fact that the man thought murder was a suitable punishment for getting pregnant out of wedlock. Final problem is that the government actually promotes this kind of behaviour (if reducing a sentence since he said "it was for honor" isn't promotion of this way, I don't know what is).

    If you stop the government promoting something and in fact start punishing something then _in time_ the social opinion will change.
     
    Abomination, Feb 29, 2004
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    law/custom/moral aren't the same and there is always a discrepancy. If the law moves to fast away from the custom, judges end up with chopped off heads. This eternal action/reaction thingie. If you tighten laws in such cases to fast, soon you'll have people raving about liberals and their sickening secularism, political correctionism and no sense of reality or any decency, not to mention that theiy're morally degnerated atheists, secretly plotting to deprive the people of the holy scripture and god. The next thing you know, that divorce is a fashion trend and abortion contraceptive number one. And think about the theft and rape statistics rocketing. The end of civilization. Oh my.
     
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    Of course laws alter society over time. See civil rights laws for example. Official acceptance of this behavior only encourages further similar behavior. It's pretty common-sensical really.

    @ Grey - I thought your post was in rather poor form.
     
    Laches, Feb 29, 2004
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    Which came first - the chicken or the egg? It's been my observation that laws don't change cultures, but rather reflect the social mores of a particular society. Trying to change an attitude through law will only meet with resistance. Look how well America did with Prohibition.
     
    Sojourner, Feb 29, 2004
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    A few years ago a Jordanian Christian girl fell in love with a muslim boy at univeristy. She got married to him and moved away. When her father found out he travelled to where she was living and shot her. So a former Christian girl was shot dead for daring to change her religion. Go figure?
     
    Khazraj, Mar 1, 2004
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