An eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth?

Question

An eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth? Or turn the other cheek?

"An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth and the world will be blind and toothless." (M. Gandhi)

What do you guys think?

Answer 1

Even the blind and toothless,

Have Insight and Bite!

Answer 2

So I either lose my eyes and my teeth or get slapped to death? Some choice....

Answer 3

The quote is not an open license on revenge, but a limit on the revenge one may extract.  It does not condone revenge but seeks to allow one who CANNOT let something go, extract their revenge so that they CAN let it go and move on while thwarting escalation of the situation.

I think Gandhi was an intelligent and thoughtful human being who misunderstood this quote as do many others.

Answer 4

The words of a door mat.

Yeah it works in situations where there are people over seeing it all and trying to police the world, but in life in general prepare to be walked all over.

Answer 5

LOL that sums up how the world is today!

Not many people still have those morals.

Answer 6

In the land of blind people , one eye is king

Answer 7

hahaha to Dan - exactly what i was thinking! or you end up with a hella sore cheek! lol

but come on, ghandi was great for a reason! i believe the 'eye for an eye' statement is not finished until you let everyone know they will end up blind and toothless!!

Answer 8

Too simplistic a question is what I think. Gandi was having a laugh.

Answer 9

I'm with Gandhi 100% on that

Answer 10

yes its like the death penalty-like this makes it better to kill a killer i think its senseless