Can anybody explain what Ghandi meant??
2007-11-18 01:23:52 · 7 answers · asked by M@R$ 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
"An eye for an eye" is a common expression for retaliation. Such belief suggests it is fair and acceptable for guilty offenders to receive as punishment the same (or the equivalent) physical sufferings and injuries that they caused on their victims. Ghandi, a pacifist, believed this concept and practice to be flawed and could only result in everyone taking vengeance on one another (an endless vicious cycle), leaving everybody in the world wounded and impaired.
Hope that helps somehow.
2007-11-18 12:48:19 · answer #1 · answered by nonsequitur 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An eye for an eye is a less simple way to say revenge. And if we all got revenge on one another for everything-where would be be?
2007-11-18 13:24:48 · answer #2 · answered by piperthegreat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was fallible. An eye for an eye means everyone loses merely ONE eye, so everyone can still see. Hey Mahatamameister - that ain't blindness!
2007-11-18 01:33:14 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Violence brings forth more violence. That's what he meant. Wars, anger, violence in general is going to lead us nowhere, it will take us to destruction. It has happened before and unfortunately it keeps happening now.
2007-11-18 16:22:00 · answer #4 · answered by Yenlys h 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was a proponent of peace.
Killing and retribution never has an end.
It doesn't determine who is right, only who is left.
2007-11-18 01:31:46 · answer #5 · answered by Lorenzo Steed 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if someone does you wrong forgive them, don't try to do the same thing to them to get revenge.
2007-11-18 02:16:01 · answer #6 · answered by jilly322 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
revenge only brings more violence
2007-11-18 02:12:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋