Overall what we are basically trying to say is that all over the world peoples rights are being abused left, right and center and it doesn't seem like it has any hope of stopping.

Peoples views on life are all different from one another so there will always be conflict in the world because the human race fail to accept people for who they really are just because they are not the same....whether it be race, religion, sex etc.
e.g. For a women to sleep around with many different men she is seen as a 'slut' or any other name you wish to use, but for a man....well....he gets a pat on the back and a cheer from his friends.
We ask ourselves why is it ok for some people to do things and not others....answer is: because thats how the world is, wheter we like it or not.
Some people are to stubborn to accept people who are different because they fear that they will be 'changed' from what they believe in and who they are...but if what they believe in was so strong they shouldn't have to worry about it in the first place....should they?

People think it's a shock to hear about killings and rapes that are going on in the world....ok I agree it is very disturbing and upsetting...but why shock? I mean Honour killings isn't the worst thing in the world and it isn't exactly rare(though it is very bad indeed)...
I was reading this book (a true story) and it was about people who worship the devil and have children for the purpose of sacrifice and one litle girl (age 6) saw unimaginable things that some of us wouldn't even have nightmares about in our life time.
Cannibalism is even still considered normal in some societies...though extremley rare nowadays.
So what do we call normal?.....for me their isn't a normal...peoples lives are different because of their upbringing...if someone were bought up in society where worshipping the devil was normal, then they would see nothing wrong with it and they would call this normal, where as someone born a Christian would be bought up to respect Jesus etc and see this as normal.

Well said Kai. People do tend to be products of their enviornments, however what about the exceptions. The family that generation after generation has no education on welfare etc.. Then a sibling goes to college, gets a great job, is this person the abnormal?. I guess we can all sit back and think well this is how they were raised. I agree to this at a certain point, but we also have been given the power to learn, educate and make decisions. I tend to think this is just an excuse for people not to evolve. I happen to think there is normalcy, without it my life would be chaotic. Again, it all has to do with how you perceive and define "normal".

No no no! I just cannot agree with you Kai. You think we should all sit back and accept what is wrong because of different cultures and traditions? If we all sat back and did nothing, we would not be enjoying the freedom that we currently have. It is easy for you to say this as you sit in your nice warm home, feeling safe from harm.

People CAN and DO change things for the better. It is the brave ones who are willing to make an effort to protest, to write letters, to discuss these things who make change. If we all did nothing, we would be living like cavemen.

Culture is one thing, tradition is one thing - basic human rights are quite another.

How the hell can you say this...?

every people has their own forbidden apples by their backrounds,traditions ,beliefs etc...and pity thats (honor killing) one of most terrible tradition in a little part of Turkish people,and i think thats only bad education metter,and humans have to know they can not punish others by their strange and silly rules.anyway we have to try understand each people has their different freedom opinion to....so its better trying to understand diffrences then to judge em easly,even if its not true or terrible for us..