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That is not what "an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" means (also known as lex taliones or the law of proportion. The intention is rather to restrain ourselves in seeking justice -- to take "no more than an eye for an eye" and "no more than a tooth for a tooth." It certainly is not predictive of what will happen to you if you do something, as you seem to suggest.So eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, means that everything you do to others will happand to you. If you call someone devil, you will be called devil, if you rob someone you will be robbed, if you shed blood your blood must be shed.
Again, you don't seem to have much understanding of the golden rule (which has many slight variations). But in essence, what you suggest is silly, and here's an example: if I want a surgeon to repair my hernia, I should first operate on his. Really?!?!The golden rule follows
Everything you want others to do for you you do unto others. If you want someone to clean your floors you clean his or her floors. If you want to be snatch out from the fire you snatch others out of the fire.
That's the law and the prophets.
The Golden Rule is a good teaching...you do realise that although it is in the Bible, it was copied from earlier texts. It was first noted in Egyptian texts of about 2000BC. "Now this is the command: Do to the doer to make him do."So eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, means that everything you do to others will happand to you. If you call someone devil, you will be called devil, if you rob someone you will be robbed, if you shed blood your blood must be shed.
The golden rule follows
Everything you want others to do for you you do unto others. If you want someone to clean your floors you clean his or her floors. If you want to be snatch out from the fire you snatch others out of the fire.
That's the law and the prophets.
School teaches us to be source critic. That means for what is shown in media.