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  1. Women are by nature unworthy of trust.
  2. If you do not educate women, how can you consider them as inferior.
  3. Women by nature are of inferior understanding.
  4. Many women, on the death of their husbands, become desirous of accompanying them.
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Option 2 : If you do not educate women, how can you consider them as inferior.

'If you do not educate women, how can you consider them as inferior' is an argument against the practice of Sati.

  • Sati is the ancient Indian custom of burning a widow on her husband's funeral pyre.
  • This was vehemently criticised by reformers like Rammohun Roy.
  • Rammohun Roy published many pamphlets to spread his ideas.
  • Some of these were written as a dialogue between the advocate and critic of a traditional practice.
  • Here is one such dialogue on sati: 
    • ADVOCATE OF SATI: 
      • Women are by nature of inferior understanding, without resolution, unworthy of trust. Many of them, on the death of their husbands, become desirous of accompanying them; but to remove every chance of their trying to escape from the blazing fire, in burning them we first tie them down to the pile.
    • OPPONENT OF SATI: 

      • When did you ever afford them a fair opportunity of exhibiting their natural capacity? How then can you accuse them of want of understanding? If, after instruction in knowledge and wisdom, a person cannot comprehend or retain what has been taught him, we may consider him as deficient; but if you do not educate women how can you see them as inferior.  

​​​Thus, we can conclude that an argument against the practice of Sati is:

"If you do not educate women, how can you consider them as inferior".

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