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Porcupine_I on 14 May 2011
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sapphi_snake said:
vlad321 said:

I fully agree, and I think the judgement was completely fair. I too use to think that the whole "eye for an eye" was a terrible idea and too barbaric. However after putting some more thought about it. I think "an eye for two" is actually a much better world.

Plus it compeletely defeats the laughable "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" because with it the people who don't deserve to be alive will be blind far sooner than any of the others.

Yes, shame on Ghandi for saying something like that (even though seems like it's literally true in this case).

actually the biblical "eye for an eye" was a demand for restraint.

it was supposed to say you should only revenge with the same amount, and not act worse than has been done to you.



“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

- George Orwell, ‘1984’