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An Eye For An Eye?? Would It Make The Whole World Blind??

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=MharkNeilCudal Nov 28, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

Im not much of a fan of the bible myself but I think this is a very big topic at the moment but I wnat to know what YOU think about the subject anyway your response matters alot to me

"You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' Exodus

"An eye for an eye can make the whole world blind." Ghandi

Who is wrong? Who is right? YOU decide!!

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~taylor17387 Dec 2, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

An eye for an eye. That's fair game. And if everybody ended up blind, it would be because everybody deserved it, right? (However, that would never happen: most persons aren't criminals, and less so if the law was so strict).

People find talion law barbaric nowadays, but think about our current system for a moment. In some Muslim country (I don't remember which one, exactly), some guy dropped acid to the face of his wife, and the punishment was burning half his face (because a woman is worth half than a man there). If that had happened in my country, they'd have put the man in jail for some years (not many, really), and after that, he would have gone out and live happily ever after (there's no life imprisonment here, and living conditions in jail are not so bad as in USA).
For me, that doesn't pay for having a burnt face during your whole life. Burning only half his face is also unfair, ok, but still better than the other option.
Or another example that was so much discussed in the media here: A group of young guys, some of them underaged, raped and brutally murdered a teenage girl. They hid the body and refused to tell the police where it was. Everybody knew that they were the murderers, but since there was no body, there was no case.
Now that girl is buried, and all those guys are free and happy. The mother of one of them even received money to talk in a TV show.
THAT'S barbaric.

*WhiskyOmega Dec 1, 2012 Professional General Artist

Well, the vast majority of the Bible is "do onto others as others do onto you",
where as Ghandi is more like "rise above what bad things others do onto you", be the better person, sort of speak.
At least, these are my interpretations, anyway.
I could be wrong.

Personally I believe stooping to the person's level who's done me wrong makes me just as bad as they are, which I don't want to do because then I can't condemn them for what they've done to me if I'm just as willing to do it to them also. Doesn't really solve anything, in my view.
Being the better person and not paying them back in kind doesn't mean I let them get away with it, however, as there are other ways of making them pay for the wrongs they committed against me.

~Vanhir Dec 1, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

Vengeance doesn't solve anything, so Ghandi.

~Ragerancher Dec 1, 2012

An eye for an eye implies revenge and that would make the whole world blind. However the concept of proportionate punshment for crimes through a legally accept judicial system is sound.

~Zareste Dec 1, 2012

If the whole world is guilty, yeah, it would make the whole world blind.

`justMANGO Nov 29, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

An eye for an eye. Because Kant.

~DutchConnaisseur Nov 29, 2012

Neh, poke out my eye, and I will kill you.

=MharkNeilCudal Nov 30, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

Hhahah :L Fair enough

~alzebetha Nov 29, 2012

bible of course.

=MaskedGuardian Nov 29, 2012

You still have one eye left... idiots.

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