I have examples from my own life where I treated people with decency after they mistreated me, and it ended up changing how they acted toward me in the future.
I also have multiple examples where I came at them with hostility, and that only led to further escalating hostility.
People don’t change the way they act when you “teach them a lesson”. That’s naive.
That’s very naive. Your way leads to bad actors doing whatever they want while good actors suffer and are not able to fight back.
That beautiful world you dream of doesn’t exist, never did and never will.
You can still punish people without an eye for an eye.
If a person loses control of their car and kills a pedestrian, an eye for an eye would mean the perpetrator would be killed.
A just legal system would put them in jail, make them pay financial restitution, and suspend their license.
Our actual legal system gives them a slap on the wrist and says don’t do that again
I have examples from my own life where I treated people with decency after they mistreated me, and it ended up changing how they acted toward me in the future.
I also have multiple examples where I came at them with hostility, and that only led to further escalating hostility.
People don’t change the way they act when you “teach them a lesson”. That’s naive.