Bumper Sticker

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"

Saw this as a bumper sticker on someone's car. And it irked me, and the first thought to pass througb my head was that pontificating from an ignorant perspective just makes you seem pretentious. The "eye for an eye" phrase, from the passage of the Bible, was not meant as a cry for vengeance, but instead as a cry for temperance. In the time at which it was written, this was intended to mean that the punishment should match the crime. An eye for an eye, instead of the tradition of the time, which was a life for an eye. Personally, I'm thinking...yeah, "eye for an eye" thus seems more fair and just.

I support punishment matching a crime. Generally. I also think, though, that extenuating reasons be allowed for certain crimes.