Parents do not expect any right on their children and even if they try, children revolt. Most common examples for this would be slavery and parenthood. Having the authority of other beings was a cruel connect of the past.
#AN EYE FOR AN EYE MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD BLIND MEANING FREE#
You are free to decide on your actions and consequences but will never have the authority over others. By killing someone, let be any innocent or a murderer, you are taking that sin (not in a religious sense) on you. No one has any right to decide on someone else’s life. The answer lies within the humanitarian morals. The most appropriate punishment for an eye would be, an eye. In order to avoid any further crime, we need to punish the guilty.
Is it same to kill an innocent and a murderer? Of course not. Many may argue that killing a murderer will make you a murderer as well. Rather more proportional mean should be looked up. Another reference would be, if two mischievous people hit in the eye of a person then the sufferer doesn’t have any right to hit the eyes of both. For example, if a person kills someone’s daughter, then the father should go for the killer and not the killer’s daughter.
When we talk about proportionality, many obvious rules come into the picture. Retributive Justice is the concept to take revenge for and on behalf of the sufferer, proportionally from the guilty or the unjust. There shouldn’t be any difference while following this law of retributive justice. The law also has a sense of equality which means that an eye of a peasant is equal to the eye of a king. ‘‘life for life, eye for an eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.’’ Isn’t it just if the sufferer gets proportional revenge from the guilty on the grounds decided by the society? Christianity and many eastern philosophies believe in the concept of justice to the sufferer by giving the exact same suffering to the guilty i.e. Revenge is often regarded as brutal thought for human mindset but proper compensation and reimbursement for the loss is seen as justice.
Should we go for the eye to equalize everything or just let it go for the sake of the world? But first, what does it actually mean? An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind - as said by Gandhi.
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