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Oct 11, 2011 01:57

What do you all think of the term, "an eye for an eye"?

bored vanitas is bad, dartanian, walking into the darkness again, enough bedrest, he is what he is, location : olivine city, what are emotions, i'm not dead yet

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[text] explosivecombat October 11 2011, 06:31:54 UTC

Consider your odds before attempting revenge on one capable of removing said eye to begin with.

[text] subvertio October 11 2011, 19:35:35 UTC

My odds are looking rather good, in this case.

[Text] foolishwren October 11 2011, 06:38:57 UTC

it's the only thing that's kept me going sometimes

why do you ask

[Text] subvertio October 11 2011, 19:38:45 UTC

It is what I was taught.

[Text] foolishwren October 12 2011, 03:01:28 UTC

well, it shouldn't go too far

but when it's justified, yes.

[The only thing that had kept Heather alive through that nightmare was the desire to end the life of the person who had taken her father's. She'd be a hypocrite if she tried to claim that 'eye for an eye' wasn't a philosophy she supported.]

[Text] subvertio October 14 2011, 03:35:23 UTC

Why should it not go too far?

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[Text.] hasearthbooks October 11 2011, 09:51:33 UTC

It depends. But generally, it doesn't do anyone any good - "makes the whole world blind", so to speak. I know of somebody consumed by her thirst for revenge - I hear it's consuming her quite literally.

Are you familiar with the story of Hamlet?

[Text.] herp don't mind his short answers and my html fail 8| subvertio October 11 2011, 19:40:24 UTC

I see.

No, I am not.

hasearthbooks October 12 2011, 08:05:52 UTC

It's an interesting story. You should read it, or see it performed sometime.

If you took that logic to its extreme consequences - murder for murder - would the retribution be worth losing your soul?

That is what that story is about.

subvertio October 14 2011, 03:36:39 UTC

Maybe.

I can't agree that I have a soul to lose in the first place.

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[Text] ass_ura October 11 2011, 10:45:44 UTC

...I LIKE IT.

[Text] subvertio October 11 2011, 19:42:28 UTC

It makes sense to strike back when something of yours was crushed.

[Text] ass_ura October 11 2011, 22:36:39 UTC

I know, right? Or, better yet, why not crush them before they try and get the drop on you? That's the best!

[Text] subvertio October 14 2011, 03:38:02 UTC

That leans on the paranoid end, but I suppose that is the point. Crush before and not have any worries. Ever.

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[text] thefourthtry October 11 2011, 11:09:06 UTC

Makes the whole world blind.

[text] subvertio October 11 2011, 19:43:46 UTC

Second time I've heard that now. Would it really?

[text] thefourthtry October 12 2011, 00:37:17 UTC

It would. An endless cycle of revenge is, well, endless.

[text] subvertio October 14 2011, 03:38:52 UTC

I doubt this would be endless. Kill and no one will ever know.

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