It really means "don't start none, won't be none.". If you don't want eye gouging to be on the menu, it behooves you to not initiate. There is nothing wrong, morally or ethically, about beating them with their own stick.
The "whole world blind" cope has rubbed me the wrong way since childhood. It presumes that the only course of action is everyone committing crimes worth corporal punishment, since you only lose an eye if you take an eye.
The obvious, clearly superior, course of action is to keep your hands to yourself.
You described eye for an eye. Did you mean golden rule?
You misunderstand the meaning of eye for an eye.
It really means "don't start none, won't be none.". If you don't want eye gouging to be on the menu, it behooves you to not initiate. There is nothing wrong, morally or ethically, about beating them with their own stick.
Striking a noble pose in defeat, is still defeat.
The "whole world blind" cope has rubbed me the wrong way since childhood. It presumes that the only course of action is everyone committing crimes worth corporal punishment, since you only lose an eye if you take an eye.
The obvious, clearly superior, course of action is to keep your hands to yourself.