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"Violence begets violence" | |||
Cycles of action - reaction | |||
Example: "Violence begets violence" | |||
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In diplomatic terms, an unpredicted, negative response against a nation | In diplomatic terms, an unpredicted, negative response against a nation | ||
also see: Revenge, Vendetta, Vengeance, Retaliation, Retribution, Payback, "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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Revision as of 16:09, 11 September 2015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma
http://www.livescience.com/41462-what-is-karma.html
"What goes around comes around"
Cycles of action - reaction
Example: "Violence begets 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
also see: Revenge, Vendetta, Vengeance, Retaliation, Retribution, Payback, "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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via the New America Foundation ... Chalmers ... Clemons: "feisty... a counterpoint to triumphalism... costs and consequences..."