sapphi_snake said:
I was talking about his attitude and the reason for his actions. Couldn't it be based on how men are culturally conditioned to see women as objects, that they can own, and do whatever they like with. The punishment he's recieving is definately cultural based justice, isn't that obvious? |
Ah, now I get you. I thought that because I was talking about how he should be dealt with by the justice system, you were also talking about that. In that case, it's still sociopathic if men can think that they have some cultural right to treat women in this way. If he was in a western country where women are equals, his behaviour would probably be defined as sociopathic anyway. (Gah! Curse my western bias!)
Also, it's obvious that this punishment is cultural in that it was given by a court operating under Sharia law. But this punishment in particular is unusual enough that news of it made it here to the west, so I thought maybe this punishment was way outside of the norm (i.e. not practised traditionally).
