“Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.” **~ British General Sir Charles James Napier**, regarding the Indian practice of sati, whereby a widow is commanded to commit suicide by throwing herself on her husband’s funeral pyre
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It would have been better to let these people burn themselves. There's 1.2 billion of them now. The earth is drowning in mud.
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