re: #31 SanFranciscoZionist

If you Google ‘killed wife and kids’, the first hit up today features some guy named Sam Friedlander in upstate New York.

No, I don’t think it’s cultural.

There are some societies where this kind of behavior is more prevalent.That is why there are efforts within those societies to change the prevaiing attitude when it comes to criminalization of these acts.

Jordan, Syria, Pakistan, etc., have had these kinds of problems for decades if not longer and are actively trying to stamp out the behavior by making the punishment severe for perpetrators. In some of the nations the police authorities won’t even arrest the perpetrator.

The biggest problem is the conflation of this cultural behavior with religiously sanctioned behavior, when in fact the religion does not snction such acts.

Cultural/religious conflation is found in every religion. Extremist Jews are mistreating women and girls in Israel and here and the Westboro Baptists are extreme example of people who use religion to justify their own bad behavior.

The list goes on and on. If we do not address it, it will only get wore.

All pathologies left unaddressed, escalate.