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"What goes around comes around"

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Dynamics of Change

Cycles of action and reaction / Science points to laws of thermodynamics and we grasp, in an interconnected world, that for every action there is a reaction.

Consequences and Costs

Over the eons of human action, even in a biblical sense, individual/tribal/societal/national actions have 'begat' counteractions.

It is, as if, a 'calculus of war' that can be seen as opposed to a 'physics of peace'.

Wage war and expect direct and continuing, unexpected costs; wage peace and expect direct and unexpected benefits.

In a sense, this is a 'karmic' equation.

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Rarely are costs of war considered as drums of war beat.

Arthur Koestler: “The most persistent sound which reverberates through men’s history is the beating of war drums.”

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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 Johnson 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" (found in Babylonian Law / Hammurabi, 1780 B.C. and Koran/Qurʾān 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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"Kindness begets kindness"; "Violence begets violence"