This is obviously very upsetting. But I’d also like to know what y’all’s answers would be to the question on this meme. This is not something I advocate for I’m going to be transparent about that, I’ve just noticed things like this a lot on the internet and want to gain some perspective.

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    1 year ago

    it should be at least equal to what I had to take.

    Problem with the general philosophy there is that if that’s universalized so that everyone adopts that philosophy, and you ever have someone injure someone else where the injuree felt it wasn’t warranted, then the whole system goes to hell as each party feels like they need to do to the other what was done to them, and each just goes back and forth dealing out the other’s just desserts. At some point, for the situation to deescalate, someone is going to have to accept what they consider to be greater harm.

    https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/27/eye-for-eye-blind/

    An eye-for-eye and tooth-for-tooth would lead to a world of the blind and toothless.