An Iranian woman living in Spain has permission to do the same what happened to her when she denied a lover. That lover sprayed acid in her eyes. Now she's blind. In Iran an eye for an eye seems to be normal. It's a right in their legislation. Many people here in West Europe would like to have the same legislation.
Plato said "One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him."
—Plato's Socrates (Crito, 49c) (c. 469 BC–399 BCE)
"One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself (positive form)[1]
One should not treat others in ways that one would not like to be treated (negative/prohibitive form, also called the Silver Rule)" (wikipedia)
This Golden Rule can be found in many religions or ways of living. THey're the ethics of life.
So why should Spain allow a blind woman to treat her attacker the same way he attacked her. This is an inferior deed which is morally/ethically wrong.
Think, can we allow this? Well, we aren't all Platoists.
1 comment:
This a very complex matter. I myself believe in forgiving butwhen some one loses eye or a loved one it is a very sad situation, it really needs lots of courage to be forgiving. On the other hand eye for eye rule does not help the one that originally lost her eye. This will return nothing back to her...
Oh well I wish there was no evil in first place.
As a concolusion, I agree with you, no rule should courage people and society to crultely and more hatered.
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