EYE FOR AN EYE MAKE THE WHOLE WORLD GO BLIND?

            Unit 1012 knows that many abolitionists love to use Mahatma Gandhi’s misattributed quote, “An eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind.” to ask for the death penalty to be abolished. We would like to write a rebuttal essay to that.

Someone did wrote an opinion letter in Arab News, in favor of the death penalty:

Here in Saudi Arabia, a serial child rapist is on trial for allegedly raping 13 young female students.  The DNA test has proved his crime and all other agencies are expeditiously activated to prove the guilt of the rapist teacher. 

Those who often quote Mahatma Gandhi's observation that “an eye for an eye will make the whole world blind” must tell us where it will lead us if such criminals are left unpunished?

Beheading murderers and rapists publicly serves as a deterrent to would-be criminals, whatever may be the arguments of the human rights activists against the capital punishment.

            Spot on! If the ACLU demons who consistently fight the death sentences of evildoers and also end LWOP, follow that quote. It will lead us to a land fit for criminals. It will terminate the population in the country.

            For those people who think that using that quote to end capital punishment is right, they should be consistent. Here are several examples.

            They should go and tell the Mexican Justice System (where they have no death penalty and LWOP) to free all Kidnappers from prison because ‘an eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind.’

            A robber can tell the courts that he should not pay fines for his crime because the country can go blind due to eye for eye.

            The CIA should tell Seal Team Six not assassinate Osama Bin Laden and the Al Qaeda as it is eye for eye making the world go blind.

            To use Gandhi’s quote is asking for chaos in the world where evil will triumph over good. Instead of using that quote, Unit 1012 prefers Adam Smith’s words:

Adam Smith (PHOTO SOURCE: http://izquotes.com/quote/267465)