# suttee and suical rights **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [January 20, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suttee-and-suical-rights/434282 "2008-01-20T18:50:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bentom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Bentom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bentom)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suttee-and-suical-rights/434282/1 "2008-01-20T18:50:41Z")
I have to agree with Cecil’s column about suttee. When a liberal wins, somebody must die (Terry Schiavo) They could make a movie: “It’s a wonderful death.” Don’t ask for whom the bell tolls. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suttee-and-suical-rights/434282/2 "2008-01-20T19:51:03Z")
Are you referring to Cecil’s column [What’s up with those Indian widows who commit suttee?](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/020405.html) I don’t remember Cecil voicing an opinion as to whether Liberals are evil. But, since we’re generalizing, why are religious Conservatives so against basic human rights? ---
**Author:** ![Bentom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Bentom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bentom)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suttee-and-suical-rights/434282/3 "2008-01-20T22:14:00Z")
[QUOTE=samclem] Are you referring to Cecil’s column [What’s up with those Indian widows who commit suttee?](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/020405.html) I don’t remember Cecil voicing an opinion as to whether Liberals are evil. But, since we’re generalizing, why are religious Conservatives so against basic human rights? [/QUOTE] Sure, I am referring to that article, and the comments on the liberals are mine only. I do regret the confusion. Sorry, samclem. I can’t answer for all religious conservatives, but my view on human rights is one of natural law. I think that rights must come from someplace- human dignity is a fine place to start. I profoundly agree with inalienable rights. I think that a protection of basic human rights means that human life must have a certain untouchable quality- and a gift quality as well- parents can’t take us out of the world they brought us into. What is your source for human rights? Endowed by our Creator? Or gifts of the state? ---
**Author:** ![vison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e47774/32.png) [@vison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vison)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suttee-and-suical-rights/434282/4 "2008-01-20T22:31:05Z")
[QUOTE=Bentom] I have to agree with Cecil’s column about suttee. When a liberal wins, somebody must die (Terry Schiavo) They could make a movie: “It’s a wonderful death.” Don’t ask for whom the bell tolls. [/QUOTE] Wow. And I, as a lifelong and devoutly hardnosed conservative, wonder what on earth Terry Schiavo has to do with _sati_. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suttee-and-suical-rights/434282/5 "2008-01-20T23:40:20Z")
[QUOTE=vison] Wow. And I, as a lifelong and devoutly hardnosed conservative, wonder what on earth Terry Schiavo has to do with _sati_. [/QUOTE] Women who commit suttee are foreigners. Foreigners are communists. American liberals are communists. Ergo American liberals kill women. Terry Schiavo was a woman, therefore American liberals killed her. Because she was married, it was suttee. It does not matter that her husband was still alive, for he was a liberal. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suttee-and-suical-rights/434282/6 "2008-01-21T03:40:21Z")
Gotta admit, **Muffin** , that seems to add up. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suttee-and-suical-rights/434282/7 "2008-01-21T15:58:02Z")
**Bentom** : You are the reason religious conservatives have a bad name in this country. For the sake of your fellows, _shut up or learn to think_. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suttee-and-suical-rights/434282/8 "2008-01-21T17:45:40Z")
\ The column has absolutely nothing to do with Terry Schiavo or liberals. Let’s close this travesty, here and now. **Bentom** , leave it alone. \