Gandhi was wrong
Posted by doke_smoper@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 58 comments
An eye for an eye would NOT make the whole world blind. What would happen is it would come down to 2 guys with 1 eye each. Then whichever one pokes out the other guy's eye first gets to be the last guy that can see, because there's no way a blind guy would be able to poke out a not blind guy's eye. It just couldn't happen.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed guy is king. And there can be only one. Like highlander.
MagicSugarWater@reddit
Justice is blind.
Resident_Course_3342@reddit
He also kind of hated Africans and didn't really respect women.
taintmaster900@reddit
Who does. Not even women respect women sometimes 😔
Resident_Course_3342@reddit
Poor incel. It must suck to be that much of a loser. My condolences.
taintmaster900@reddit
Yeah it sucks that people can interpret something to be malicious when it's not. I don't care lol whoops I understand where you are coming from. I didn't mean "nobody respects women and nobody should" I meant "nobody respects women in general so much that they think they deserve it."
I don't care if you call me an incel. It's not cool but. I would never call myself involuntarily celibate, I'd rather do it voluntarily. Fucking isn't the be-all-end-all of human experience. I AM however, a self-identified loser so, you rite.
Resident_Course_3342@reddit
Yikes.
Excellent_Village458@reddit
The raped. hope you unfuck yourself before it gets really rough. Redditor.
Head-Impress1818@reddit
He also slept with children
Responsible-Jury2579@reddit
Who were related to him?
I_might_be_weasel@reddit
You are failing to consider weapons of mass blinding.
Xiaxs@reddit
I'd eat mace if it meant I got to gouge out (a certain couple of) someone('s) eye(s)
SliceIllustrious6326@reddit
Day of the triffids...
Shdwzor@reddit
Triffids
ashiqbanana@reddit
Intercontinental Blinding Missiles
Pielacine@reddit
Have them eat a one day blinding stew
iWillRe1gn@reddit
Military "blinding" exercise
EbayT4Turbo@reddit
Stoneburner
4thmonkey96@reddit
Saw dust bombing runs it is
Darth-Purity@reddit
Nobody is failing anyone here, my dear
memento87@reddit
That's true. Which is why my buddy and I always volunteer to help blind people every weekend. I hold them still while he pokes their eyes out with a stick.
Brief_Caterpillar175@reddit
It feels so good to make a difference in other peoples lives.
SuperFLEB@reddit
You're assuming that the eye-for-eye transaction has to happen on a manual, personal, and involuntary basis. Accounting can happen any number of ways, and mechanical or mechanically-assisted means can be employed to ensure compliance.
AbyssalScholar@reddit
Nah, a previously blinded person would have been training for months by then in blind fighting martial arts and he would find the last guy with an eye and absolutely mess his shit up yo.
ZombKek@reddit
Eli from The Book Of Eli [2010] has entered the arena
Effective_Dust_177@reddit
Elle Driver has entered the chat
1nOnlyBigManLawrence@reddit
Colonel Stinkmeaner be like:
Mindless-Angle-4443@reddit
Or, you know, you make eye for an eye a justice system, built on punishing someone the exact way they hurt another, and not as eye-gouging anarchy.
Designer_Version1449@reddit
I think the original quote was criticizing cycles of mass violence, not individual cases
Atom1cThunder@reddit
The original quote was by the Prophet Muhammad PBUH of Islam "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and the person that began is the unjust."
It definitely is on individual level.
JawtisticShark@reddit
Should have taken some poetic license and made it “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and the person that began is the most uncouth”
Designer_Version1449@reddit
Ya but here it's "the world goes blind" which changes the meaning
baronvonpenguin@reddit
Eyelander
liberal_texan@reddit
There can see only one.
f_leaver@reddit
One eye remaining out of over 17 billion, is a close enough approximation to "makes the whole world blind".
zizwaaa@reddit
you know what ? YOU ARE THROWING FACTS !
Pickle_Nipplesss@reddit
We get it, you saw Seven Psychopaths
Real_Luck_9393@reddit
Lol that was my first thought
Real_Luck_9393@reddit
https://youtu.be/2Sqmq_-6cwk
MightyCat96@reddit
Ok. An eye for an eye leaves one person with one eye intact and the rest of the world is miserable
Paccuardi03@reddit
If there’s only 1 or 2 people with sight then I’d say the world is blind.
Head-Impress1818@reddit
I’ve always hated that idea. If people had actual consequences much less people would be metaphorically taking eyes
CountCobraStormIII@reddit
An eye for an eye leaves two people partially sighted. If you don't intuitively understand this, I don't have time to explain.
lamppb13@reddit
1) A blind person could still blind another. It's not impossible.
2) You missed the point.
Equivalent-Ad-1927@reddit
This is in the movie seven psychopaths
Berkamin@reddit
No; rather, in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is a hallucinating lunatic. People have an incredible capacity to not believe truths that they don't want to believe even when they're told by people who they ought to trust.
Siphix108@reddit
Close, but not yet there...if we go the overthinking direction 😂
wiccangame@reddit
What if they simultaneously poke?
Nicksaurus@reddit
That's illegal
wiccangame@reddit
But poking is allowed?
ObsessedKilljoy@reddit
Well no, because once you get an eye from someone else, and someone else gets an eye from another person, you two can just trade those eyes and keep both the ones in your skull. Really only half of the world would go blind or so.
ExpensivePanda66@reddit
What are the women doing while all this guy eyeing taking place?
ObsessedKilljoy@reddit
Being reasonable
Excellent_Village458@reddit
wow this really got me thinking. Like when did nonviolent protest transform into approved soft invasion? few nations force newcomers to acclimate anymore. It’s just layered force now, whether to seize or to retain.
MartyMcFlyAsFudge@reddit
I mean.. he succeeding in accomplishing what he set out to do and his goal was far bigger than most people who've ever lived....
lilsasuke4@reddit
So there is absolutely positively with complete certainty and no exceptions that the last 2 people never in infinite amount tries could blind each other?
Imagine we both had a knife. How certain could you be to get with in range of cutting me that I couldn’t cut you back?
BoltsGuy02@reddit
A blind person couldn’t take out an eye?
CartographerMurky306@reddit
He never said this
Apprehensive_Name445@reddit
who says they were poking? they could use bb guns to shoot each other in the remaining eye, so now they both want to quit