Women gets to drip acid into a mans eyes by court rule

[vlad321]

Porcupine_I said:

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.

The problem with that is that there are two parts to every human action, the purpose and the consequence. Jusst equal damage, or less, is what happens when you consider the consequences. Basically leaving the whole part about the purpose unpunished. People's purpose should be punishable just as much as the consequences of their actions.