Category:Karma: Difference between revisions

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"What goes around comes around"

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Cycles of action - reaction / "Kindness begets kindness"; "Violence begets violence"

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"Blowback" and cycles of violence

http://www.thenation.com/article/blowback/

blow·back

ˈblōbak/

Noun

1. a process in which gases expand or travel in a direction opposite to the usual one, especially through escape of pressure or delayed combustion

2. US - the unintended adverse results of a political action or situation

In diplomatic terms, an unpredicted, negative response against a nation

See also Chalmers Johsnon via the New America Foundation; "a counterpoint to triumphalism... costs and consequences..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVsfwXr9iAk

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also see: Revenge, Vendetta, Vengeance, Retaliation, Retribution, Payback

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"An Eye for an Eye" (as principle found in Babylonian Law / Hammurabi, 1780 B.C. and also Exodus and Leviticus (עין תחת עין, ayin tachat ayin)

Leviticus: "As he has done, so it shall be done to him [namely,] fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he has injured a person, so it shall be done to him." (Lev. 24:19–21)

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"Revenge is a profound moral desire to keep faith with the dead, to honour their memory by taking up their cause where they left off"

-- Brandon Hamber and Richard A. Wilson, Symbolic Closure through Memory, Reparation and Revenge in Post-conflict Societies (Johannesburg: Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation)

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