2007-05-10 04:55:48 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What laws?
2007-05-10 05:02:06 · answer #1 · answered by jinxmchue001 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the United States every law hasn't adopted the "eye for an eye" mentality.
Do we cut off the hands of those who steal?
Do we cut off the genitalia of those who rape, or molest children?
Yes some states do have the death penalty for those who have committed capital offenses. But more often then not the crime isn't punished following the eye for an eye theory.
2007-05-10 12:20:07 · answer #2 · answered by moonshadow418 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The eye for an eye was the way of the old Testament. It was Jesus who preached the turn the other cheek. I was taught that forgiveness was the proper way of dealing with someone who wronged you. The eye for an eye is what saved the Jewish civilization from their enemy's long before Christ was born.
2007-05-10 12:08:07 · answer #3 · answered by redd headd 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wise in whose eyes? Western culture has declared the vice of acquisitiveness a virtue, but it is still a vice. Morality is not morality by vote.
Your question does, however, raise an important point for those who find themselves described as non-violent, or pacifist. Are there real, even if limited, places for retribution, and/or violence?
HTH
Charles
2007-05-10 12:10:36 · answer #4 · answered by Charles 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To turn the other cheek is like to turning to a blind eye to what is happening, to turn the other cheek would be like offering the terrorists the white house after 9/11, or offering a bank robber another bank to rob, or offering the VA Tech shooter to go to another school, or offering an abortion bomber another clinic, Fred Philips another funeral, a rapists another rape victim....ect.
No, to turn the other cheek, it has no commonsense at all, everyone has a right to live, and everyone has a right to defend themselves, and everyone has a right to seek justice.
Would you offer someone who just murder your first born and then offered them your second child
OR
Would fight, to hurt them for the pain they have caused you, and to seek justice for what they have done.
To turn the other creek or an eye of an eye, it's your choice.
2007-05-10 12:24:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The bible promotes love for others....Jesus gave us a new command to love one another as he loved us .
We are to be peaceable to everyone as long as it depends on us.
The eye for an eye is in the old law covenant which Jesus fulfilled. We are no longer under it.
So we should do to others what we would have them do to us...and that means the benefit of the doubt...and tolerance.
We should treat others better than ourselves.
God is love.
2007-05-10 12:02:26 · answer #6 · answered by debbie2243 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The principle of law is justice/fairness. Eye for an eye is fair, right?. It is wise to be fair.
2007-05-10 12:38:02 · answer #7 · answered by z_jepoh 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You gotta turn the other cheek so they other guy can get at your other eye easier.
2007-05-10 11:59:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because getting back at people is what feels good, even though it may not always be the wise thing to do.
2007-05-10 11:58:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Turn the other cheek" is about personal disputes and insults.
"An eye for an eye" is about criminal justice.
2007-05-10 12:03:38 · answer #10 · answered by peacetimewarror 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋