Tell me I am intolerant.
2007-06-12 20:14:24 · 11 answers · asked by melbournewooferblue 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Mikki the cultural thing doesn't stand up in the
moral law.Shakespeares play tells you that at the end everybody looses when it happens.
2007-06-14 23:08:20 · update #1
None. It's a bastardisation of the word 'honour'.
2007-06-12 20:20:20 · answer #1 · answered by daveygod21 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are not intolerant. Honour killing is just murder. We have the case now in court of a man, a father, who killed his own daughter in an Honour killing. What sort of man is that? How can a father be convinced that to murder his own daughter is simply normal and okay?
The whole business, now before the courts, must be settled and seen for what it is, plain old murder.
What happens - girl meets boy, boy is from wrong tribe, girl is killed - even for holding hands.
Watch the play by Wm. Shakespeare - "Romeo and Juliet" - it's all in there somewhere, only Juliet takes her own life before 'they' come to kill her.
If you don't want to watch the Shakespeare version, see instead "Westside Story". Same thing.
2007-06-13 01:09:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no honour in a boy killing his sister because she was raped as is the custom in many muslim countries. The "idea" is that he is saving her from a life where she would live in shame, and by killing her he's doing her the honour of not having to endure that and he takes the responsibility.
2007-06-12 20:18:32 · answer #3 · answered by Macro 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no honour at all. It is an act of cowardice, because in certain communities the men don't have the guts to say it's ok to do something differently.
2007-06-12 20:28:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The two words are mutually incompatible. There can never be honour in killing, in any shape of form.
2007-06-12 20:47:25 · answer #5 · answered by Christine H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no honour in honour killing. It's out and out murder. Period. The end.
2007-06-12 20:17:29 · answer #6 · answered by Richard B 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There is no honour...unfortunately the shame is always put on the female no matter what a male did to her to "disgrace" the family name.
2007-06-12 20:17:19 · answer #7 · answered by coolred38 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
to me there is no honor in honor killing either. it is murder in my opinion, but other cultures have a different view. to them the honor is "given" to the family because they feel that the young lady has shamed the name of the family in some way and has caused the family to lose face and honor. the honor killing would allow for them to get back that honor. if they don't then it would appear as if they are condoning the behavior which is considered shameful in the eyes of society. this behavior occurs in collectivistic societies where great importance is put on one's family name and what society thinks of them. it's different from the individualistic society of western countries.
2007-06-12 20:24:57 · answer #8 · answered by mikky 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not sure, but its in loads of cultures... the most famous is japanese.
Personally I think its all crap, how can you have honour and dignity when your dead. A famous poet once said
'you can live with dignity, but noone can die with it'
2007-06-12 20:18:58 · answer #9 · answered by Sabre 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You buy your perceived honour with someones death
2007-06-12 20:20:35 · answer #10 · answered by Barbara Doll to you 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋