Imagine: you're a 20-year-old Kurdish woman and you're married to a man 10 years older than you in an arranged marriage. That marriage has turned into violent within months. Then, you meet a man you really love but you know your family wouldn't approve it if you'd want a divorce. What would you do? Banaz Mahmod, the 20-year-old Kurdish woman, couldn't find a different solution and divorced her current husband to marry the other man. This behavior was found to be so embarrassing by her family, leading to her death in 2006. These homicides are called ˜honor killings'. I believe it's never justified to take revenge on someone for breaking the family's honor, because killing someone for that reason is disproportioned and useless. First of all, it's important to realize that the reaction of killing someone is VERY disproportional behavior when someone breaks your family's honor. It's understandable that if one's family is very strict and when family's honor broken. Then again, anywhere in the world it's taught that you should forgive. Every religion tells you the same thing about forgiveness: forgiveness has always been and will always be important. Especially with family members. And, even if someone (or a family) is hurt so badly that he/she isn't able to forgive, it's my opinion that one should never do more harm than the other person had done. Killing someone isn't a proportional reaction if one feels offended “just like hitting someone with a brick when he/she had sworn at you. Secondly, killing is never the solution; it's very useless. The consequences of killing are different, but never positive: killing causes (even more) hatred, anxiety, desire to revenge, sadness and perhaps more murders (and therefore victims). Families may think they have saved their family honor by killing someone for saving the family's honor, but how are those thoughts even possible when they have murdered someone? It's very hard to imagine that murd