The woman was obviously deeply attached to her husband and devastated at his death. However no attempt was made to dissuade the woman from committing suicide; indeed her brother-in-law was concerned only with whether she would go through with it on the day and not bring shame to the family name.
How can someone that has so say in a tragedy tell someone how they should deal with it?
women committing sati
I find it funny how they say committing sati, and making it sound better. Because in reality they are killing themselves.
After the death of a husband an Hindi widow was expected to live the life of an aesthetic, renouncing all social activities, shaving her head, eating only boiled rice and sleeping on thin coarse matting (Moore 2004). To many, death may have been preferable, especially for those who were still girls themselves when their husband's died.
How can this be okay?
In a country that shunned widows, sati was considered the highest expression of wifely devotion to a dead husband (Allen & Dwivedi 1998, Moore 2004).
So they're saying that they would shun widows for being widows? Being a widow is not a choice.
by which a recently widowed woman either voluntarily or by use of force or coercion commits suicide as a result of her husband's death.
It sounds like they aren't giving them an option. If they don't volunteer then they're forced to.
Appeal to Ignorance
This sounds like a lot of different people im sure everyone could match a face to. Someone that believes whatever they say is correct even if it hasn't been proven right or wrong yet. Maybe in a mathematics classroom setting before the answer is given. They think they are right even though they could be very wrong.
The Naturalistic Fallacy
Im sure that this can cause a lot of problems because people always feel so strongly towards large topics like sexism and gender rolls.
This, of course overlooks the possibility that they were wrong or had no good reason to believe or act as they did.
This shows a person who always thinks they're right and also shows to be closed-minded.
believe anything he or she says
So they don't have an open mind and only believe what they want to believe