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In my opinion, you are taking a hypothetical point of view too far. The photograph emotes the byline (picture is worth a thousand words, etc). The journalist or story-teller plus the facts and opinions in the world around us provide the context.

In this case, the photograph certainly has emotive and possibly even artistic properties, and people have voted to deem it so. There is plenty of additional context documented to say bride-burnings are real and an offense. If people chose to feel outraged in such context, they should feel free to do so without any sort of "great lesson" being attached and that their reaction should be somehow qualified by your implied scolding.

At the risk of delving into an old cliche example, if an image of the Holocaust gains acclaim and foments great emotion or argument, that is certainly no "great lesson" that we should temper the reaction in case it's set up or could have been. Be real.

You are part of the problem. You only have to look at your emotions and attitude to understand why things like this continue to happen. The problem is barbarism and violence towards fellow human beings. We need laws and their enforcement that reflect the value of human life and dignity. Your anger and lust to go around killing people only reinforce the norm that you get your way with brutality, that human life is disposable. For what? To make *you* feel better? To make you feel righteous, powerful, less small? It's certainly not to help the victims or to prevent future cases. Long jail sentences do that better: they are as effective in protecting the victims and as effective or more as a deterrent (so the data says), and they don't reinforce the norm that life is disposable and that brutality and violence is the way to handle problems.