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Should it be legal to discriminate against honor killer families?

Honor killings are often carried out against family members perceived or suspected of having brought shame onto the family, usually by a sibling or previous generation relative.

While most certainly illegal, it should be fair in a big picture point of view to discriminate against the same class of shamed people if they or their kin carry out an honor killing. I may not care that some dude’s sister married a person of a lesser caste, but if his mother and brothers killed her over it, maybe I don’t want to risk giving him a job or renting him an apartmenet. Who knows what the risks are - I could be out a large investment in training if he’s later arrested for conspiracy in the original honor killing or involvement in some other honor killing of some other family member.

Civil libertarians would rightfully say that you must not exact the punishments of someone else’s crime upon an individual, but I think it would be fair karma if a family suffered for the crimes committed in the name of the family’s honor. It may be the only way to stop the tradition.