';An eye for an eye ends up making the whole world blind';...?

M.K. Gandhi





what are your thoughts on that???





what do you make of that?';An eye for an eye ends up making the whole world blind';...?
Jesus said it first and better with 'turn the other cheek' to stop the primitive law cycle of revenge and payback.





Ghandi was a shrewd lawyer.';An eye for an eye ends up making the whole world blind';...?
I believe that is very true that goes along with two wrongs dont make a right Gandhi was an extremely bright man with a view of utopia in his mind if we all followed his words we would be much better off
I agree with that. You shouldn't get back at someone just because they did something to you. It will end up making the whole world bitter and that is what starts wars.
In the common understanding that is right... but I think the verse is taken out of context. Eye for an Eye really means that if we do something wrong, natural law will see to it that whatever we did will come back to us.





What goes around comes around. I think that was the original idea behind that verse which has now been turned upside-down.





UPSIDE-DOWN things like that are rather common in theology. Find a bunch of them in this free online source.
That is true. instead of getting this person back for what ever he or she did to you. You should try to resolve the difference and work towards a peaceful resolution.
An eye for an eye came about as a restriction on punishment.





Back in the Ole Testament days laws were pretty strict.





Have an affair : death


Steal something : death


Lie : death





It was much like the Taliban law.





The idea was that a person should not be punished beyond what they did. The punishment should fit the crime.





The ';making the whole world'; bit is a cute soundbite. It sound very groovy. But the fact is society does need some kind of control.
Wise man, Mr. Gandhi. Revenge is not justice. True justice has as its goal restoration of order, not the perpetuation of punishment.
I can understand where the idea comes from, that everyone has harmed someone and if that is true, we all would have had to get an eye plucked out. But it LITERALLY means if you hurt someones eye beyond repair, you lose an eye, too. It isn't a possibility in a literal sense, but in a philosophical sense, it means no one is perfect and no one can ever live their life without hurting anyone else.
I would say that I pretty much follow it. I think Gandhi was a fantastic and inspirering person!
In the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is king?????
Are you talking about that funny court TV show?!..its hilarious.
a tooth for a tooth and everyone's eating soup--


yes law and justice have outgrown the bible
It means, if you, give justice by doing the same deed to the one who did the deed, then sooner or later then the whole world will be extinct.
So true :) Responding to violence only produces more violence. Lol. Be like the super hero in the movies! Set the example (being kind) and show the evil doer the error of his ways! lol.





To elaborate on this more, this is exactly what we tend to do. Something happens to us and so instead of changing our selves (which can be quite easy) we try to change OTHERS! Which is often quite hard. For example if I don't like the obnoxous noise your making, instead of going over and hitting you, or tellign you to stop (like most peopel tend to do), I should change myself to actualy ENJOY the sound you make.