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Originally Posted by BurtReynoldsMoustache
No they're not the same. If I damage your fence, having justice would mean I paid to repair it. Revenge would be if you destroyed my fence in retaliation. Now nobody has a fence and we have a feud.
Hammurabi's code is where we get an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, and as Gandhi said "An eye for an eye ends in making everybody blind."
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Irrelevant example, you can't pay for a murdered wife/son/daughter/husband to be "repaired" but in that case I see the death of the perpetrator as the closest to justice as you'll ever get.
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Originally Posted by BurtReynoldsMoustache
Gandhi said "An eye for an eye ends in making everybody blind."
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Gandhi was racist and supported Adolf Hitler.......I have no respect for him or his quotes.
And that quote doesn't even make sense...