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There is no culture that says it is okay to kill a woman; there is no religion that says it is okay to kill a woman—it is society that enables that.
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The speaker contrasts stated cultural and religious values with society’s real-world behavior. The point is that killing women is not openly accepted as a moral rule, yet social conditions can still allow it to happen. Responsibility therefore extends beyond individual acts to the wider society that permits or fails to prevent such violence.
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