Is "eye for an eye" a good punishment system?

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Haha Hitler and life in prison. So you are paying $80,000 a year to keep the most evil man ever to be born alive.... All the while he can make more books and convert more people to the path of evil. Yeah that sounds like a REALLY GOOF idea.

Wow you are so naive. It is that type of talk that allows murders to continue. I would kill a million murders and rapists to save a million innocent civilians any day. You would not kill them and they would be free to murder again. Thus by not killing them you assisted them in murdering another person. Your inaction caused the deaths of many innocents. All I did was rid the Earth of a plague.

Uh... Bin Laden was retaliating the whole time. We shot him in the head and now Al Quida is falling apart.

I see... So when the SS was collecting Jews if a Jew fought back and killed a member of the SS then they were the same as the SS. The only way to not be equal to the SS in your world is to curl over and die quietly. A world where you turn your cheek the other way and ignore the obvious is not a world I wish to live in. Also you are saying that the founding fathers of America were a bunch of murders and our first president was a mass murder because he fought against the British?

Your thinking means that anyone who ever defended themselves, fought for their freedom, or protected someone else is a murderer. The only way out is to roll over and die nice and quietly. Sickening.


If one of my parents went insane and started going on a killing spree I would want to execute them myself for the crimes they committed. Well that is unless the victims want to do it as they have a better reason than me for doing so. You cannot allow criminals (real criminals) to get away unscathed. If you steal then that person needs to repay the people in full plus interest (and inflation) on what they stole.

If the world is not fair then people will seek to bring fairness to the world. This in itself isn't a problem until you add in the fact that when people do this type of thing they are usually angry and not thinking fully. When they attempt to balance it out they go too far and make it imbalanced once again. Then others seek to restore balance and it continues. If you create a balance then revenge will not happen and events will end when justice is served.
i hit you-you hit me< An eye for an eye?
Why did i hit you? I didn't knew better.
What if? What if you know ill hit you? Would you sit back and wait for me to make an attempt? o.o I'd rather teach you its wrong before that happens.
Like a game, We each have 3 hit points. 3:3. You hit me, 3-1=2, 2:3. I hit you, 2:3-1=2. 2:2 (perfect return). Why did we hit each other? :| The time im spending on hitting you back, if i knew i better i could reallocate it in to telling you we'll both be better off with 3HP.
i'll say your answer was normative rather positive ._. idk while we each are entitled to our opinions. The system was dropped in every culture. We learn from the past, practice in the present, hope for the future. Bringing up what happened is pointless, what we need to discuss is what we'll do @_@ and personally i wouldn't exactly like the sight of our children poking each others eyes >_> we should simply eliminate their incentive to do that
 
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