It’s a nice quote but doesn’t really make sense. The eye for the second eye is the first eye, there’s only two eyes involved, not a nonsensical endless chain of eyes. This concept of justice predates the quote.
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Folstar@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” -Gandhi
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
So should we just tolerate the intolerant? Cause that’s going to end well. We’d still have half a planet with stabbed eyes while they go scot free.
Folstar@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
It turns out there are more than zero options between “do nothing” and “become what you hate”. Many in fact.