10-16-2006, 02:55 AM
Is there any example is the scriptures where women are forced to commit sati? From what I know, super-civilized types' Hindu bashing manual says Hindus force the widows to commit sati. If a person does whatever out of grief etc, that's their business. It is a suicide, and illegal, but nobody made them kill themselves. Lots of cultured, sophisticated, civilized people (Witzel-Farmer: I am talking about the genuinely cultured people: the white ones) have slashed their wrists in the tub. No one forced them to do it.