2006-08-04 13:01:07 · 42 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"
----Mahatma Gandhi.
but never think that weakness is right....
even a begger wants to make a donation of $10,000...
every old man says we have to be peaceful........
True power is knowing that you CAN...but you DONT....
when you are powerful...they only you can forgive....
If somebody slaps you and you are a coward, you cant say hit me on the other cheek too, I am a saint.....a coward can never become a saint..
this i learnt directly thru experience......I used to beat everybody up when i was a kid, whenever someone said a bad word..or whenever someone tried to harm me, i used to beat them up so much they would run away.......
but as I grew up I understood that change brought by force only stays as long as there is force...and when its gone, the change is gone....
change comes thru love and not thru violence...from then I stopped....
I could beat anybody up, so I learnt to forgive and to love...
forgiveness is higher than vengence....but we should not mistake weakness for forgiveness...weakness for strength....
2006-08-04 16:21:31 · answer #1 · answered by raj_6c1 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No I don't. I believe revenge only accelerates violence. Ideally if someone needs to violate another, the cause of the violator could be address and resolved without making matters worse. Otherwise, one takes revenge on another, which then disturbs still others, who then take revenge on that many more and there is no end. It just gets deeper, kind of like the world today. I thing an "eye for an eye" resolves nothing.
2006-08-04 13:29:09 · answer #2 · answered by Joyful gal 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not out of context.
The proper context is that you should expect to pay in kind when you acidentally hurt some one out of rage. In other words, hold your temper because youmight unintentinally hurt someone by accident. Also, let the punishment fit the crime. That is the proper context.
As you can't give an eye for an eye, it should be understood that you must use your eye to replace the eye taken, or else you give them nothing but another dead eye.
2006-08-04 18:25:28 · answer #3 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about extenuating circumstances? What if the first eye was poked out by an unfortunate accident or an honest mistake? Will the second eye poking be accidental as well? Since this second, punitive act is retaliatory, its character will be intentional. So we have an accidental eye removal avenged by an intentional eye removal. Now would that be just?
2006-08-04 13:40:51 · answer #4 · answered by Mariaell 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An eye for an eye makes the world blind
Two wrongs have never made a right
etc
No, i dont believe in Revenge..its a cold, inhumane and barbaric thing
2006-08-04 13:07:37 · answer #5 · answered by thomas p 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure if I were a caveman I would believe in an "eye for an eye", but civilization has seen a problem with that philosophy since ancient Greece.
2006-08-04 13:06:14 · answer #6 · answered by trueblue88 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gandhi once said "eye for an eye"only makes the world world blind.
At some point one party has to not take action otherwise "eye for an eye" becomes circular, endlessly repeating.
Who benefits then?
2006-08-04 13:24:17 · answer #7 · answered by ManishaUK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe an eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
2006-08-04 13:04:12 · answer #8 · answered by Aussie Chick 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i guess it depends on what part of the bible you read. the old testament says and eye for an eye, yet the new testament says turn the other cheek. so it just depends on what you believe. personally i go with the turn the other cheek because you know what goes around comes around.
2006-08-04 13:05:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
an eye for an eye sadly yes and even worse, I'm only human not a saint
2006-08-04 15:12:30 · answer #10 · answered by von1979 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋