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Based on the murderous reaction from the entire family, I doubt the transliteration issue happening or not wouldn't have changed the outcome much. It's a weird consequence of a transliteration issue, but someone prepared to murder someone else over a rude text is a ticking time bomb regardless.

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It might seem like an overreaction from a western point of view, but the accusations in the context of Central Asian culture is something so extremely sensitive that people from all walks of life, from nobility to the poor kill and die over it. It is just a different frame of mind.

This is an overreaction. It's violence. Trying to justify it by claiming it's part of their culture is not healthy, I think we can have some universal values (don't stab people?) and it is perfectly reasonable to force people to adopt to those values. It's their culture? They can leave the violent parts of culture behind and adopt to the expectations of modern society (not stabbing people).

I'm Turkish. I grew up in Turkey. These things happen, but let's not try to justify them. We should aim to get to a point where people share these "western values" (of not stabbing people).

The point of the comment you're responding to is not to justify it, the point is to rebut GP's assertion that the violence would have occurred anyway.

> it is perfectly reasonable to force people to adopt to those values.

No, it isn't (slippery slope fallacy I know), because that's what's happening in western politics as we speak and I for one am Not Okay with it.

I'm sorry but stabbing someone over a single text message is not cultural difference, is idiocy.

Honor culture makes people do weird and terrible things. The American cultural version would be the same thing but with a gun.

No matter how much I typically despise American culture, killing people (no matter by which means) over prostitution in an antecedent does not appear to be a part of it.

Please classify the idiotic and non-idiotic reasons for killing an former lover.

At 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.

"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.

Accordingly would be with (violent) words.

Could you tell us where you're from, anyhow?

It's like a Reddit relationships post, it's highly unlikely the single text message was the whole issue.

The other replies seem to indicate that cultural diversity is fine as long as it's in accord with their culture.

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