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I'm sorry but stabbing someone over a single text message is not cultural difference, is idiocy.
by 4gotunameagain 1y ago
I'm sorry but stabbing someone over a single text message is not cultural difference, is idiocy.
- pjc50 1y agoHonor culture makes people do weird and terrible things. The American cultural version would be the same thing but with a gun.
- omeid2 1y ago"A single text" is an absurd reductionism. People suffer worst than death over words all the time, even in the West. Some folks adhere to honour, some to political groups and ideologies, some religion, some to their social views; there are words that are treated as violence and responded to accordingly in every context.
- g-b-r 1y agoAccordingly would be with (violent) words. Could you tell us where you're from, anyhow?
- GoblinSlayer 1y agoAt least you can defend yourself in that case. For comparison in USA you can go to jail for life if FBI drops a picture on your computer.
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoIt's like a Reddit relationships post, it's highly unlikely the single text message was the whole issue.