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Tao Stoic 98

"Master, our so-called justice is entirely based on revenge. The measure of punishment or revenge depends on the size of the deed, or the person of the victim, one can buy his way out by having the best defence, in fact, the pair of scales and the sword on the goddess Justitia, speak much clearer language. It is a deliberate insult to mankind, don't you think?"

"How right you are. We can see from Kung Fu (4) that: 'Vengeance is a watervessel with a hole in it, it carries nothing but the promise of emptiness.' Indeed, it is Mankind that is hoodwinked, blindfolded, no need for the goddess to be so. Her blindfold is absolutely superfluous because she was born-blind for Human Dignity from the start. The Romans had the executed flogged, Hypatia's flesh was scraped from her bones, a pope had bones dug up after ten years and burned, and all methods of legal(!) excecution like the gallows, the garrotte, the quillotine, electric chair, firing squad were as beastly as possible, while we have gentle ways of despatching animals hence also men, by ether and so forth. It is our blind(folded)ness that makes us think that we live in a civilised world."


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Ven 2005-01-24