Ask yourself this what would make you tie someone to the back of your car and drag them for 250 meters trying to kill them ? Nothing ? Don ' t be so sure . Imagine you lived in a society where children under 16 were not considered people , and your neighbor had raped and murdered your two 15 year old daughters . You have no legal recourse . You don ' t care about being caught . You just want what you perceive to be justice . So you brutally murder your neighbor . When you have people do something like this you have to understand that it was done because they think it is the right thing to do . A lot of the time when we talk about cultural differences we are talking about which fork is for fish and which is for meat . But there are cultures in the world with vastly different fundamental values , and we need to recognize that if we are going to deal with it .