(IJCH) Revisiting Spock Logic
(IJCH) Revisiting Spock Logic
IJCH - Inside JaiChai's Head (meaning: My warped, personal opinions and musings.)
From the Author
Salutations.
I am JaiChai.
And if I haven't had the pleasure to make your acquaintance, it's always nice to meet a fellow Steemian.
The local crowd cheered when they heard that the criminal had "got what he deserved".
"Justice had been served" and with a group sigh of relief, the crowd basked in the renewed confidence that "the universe always rebalances karma".
Hammurabi's Code - "An Eye For An Eye"
["Only one eye for one eye", also known as "An eye for an eye", or the law of retaliation, is the principle that a person who has injured another person is to be penalized to a similar degree, or in softer interpretations, the victim receives the [estimated] value of the injury in compensation. The intent behind the principle was to restrict compensation to the value of the loss.]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_for_an_eye
Cognitive Dissonance
I’ve never quite embraced that eye for an eye philosophy.
Who keeps score?
Who decides which lives are more valuable than others?
The Needs of The Many
There is a very famous scene from a Star Trek movie regarding this phrase.
Leonard Nimoy as Spock in “Star Trek” made the phrase globally well known in the movie “The Wrath of Khan.”
It is the famous “Spock Logic” that states, “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one”.
Spock Logic hearkens back to Charles Dickens’ “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”
At first blush, “The Needs …” phrase sounds logical, fair and honorable, right?
But now ask yourself this:
If you had the ability to take time-travel vacations and happened to bump into a little boy named Adolph Hitler, would you kill him?
I seriously question how anything positive can be reaped from sowing negativity first.
I accept that in this world that I am currently experiencing, nothing can bring back my friend, that grandmother, that grandson, or anyone else involved in the bus accident back to life.
The above is an adaptation from:
https://steemit.com/random/@jaichai/the-precision-of-random-events
My fellow Steemians,
I would love to hear your thoughts on this matter. How do you feel about "an eye for an eye" justice?
Namaste (I recognize the divine in you, my friend),
JaiChai
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- JaiChai "My mind was a terrible thing to waste..."
About the Author
He is a retired U.S. Military veteran. Believing that school was too boring, he dropped out of High School early; only to earn an AA, BS and MBA in less than 4 years much later in life – while working full-time as a Navy/Marine Corps Medic.
In spite of a fear of heights and deep water, he freefall parachuted out of airplanes and performed diving ops in very deep, open ocean water.
He spends his days on an island paradise with his teenage daughter, longtime girlfriend and three dogs.
Parting Shot -
If eye for an eye makes the whole world blind, what does that say about the world?
@vimukthi,
The irony is that the original meaning of that phrase was meant strictly for compensation , NOT for measuring severity of punishment.
In other words, it was meant for Civil vice Criminal matters.
Of course, like many terms through the ages (e.g., "The LOVE of money is the root of all evil), it got truncated from "ONLY one eye for an eye" to the simply "An eye for an eye"; totally twisting both its meaning and context.
As for the world? It is what it is...until it isn't, no?
Namaste, my friend.
JaiChai
Well Ayn Rand had a good lecture on money and evil on Atlas Shrugged.
"If eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." Gives me 2 impressions. First one is a cycle of revenge. It's bad but doesn't bring be despair. The second impression is what sickens me. It's the impression that we all sinners and punishment or consequence will bring us all to ruin. It's the logic of suicide and one of the main foundation behind atrocities like The Spanish Inquisition. It's a philosophy based on guilt and forgiveness of it.
@vimukthi,
(Not sure where I read this?)
Money and Religion are the corrupt parents.
And since they will screw anybody, their bastard children (government and education) keep trying to win mommy and daddy's favor over the other bastard children (Admiralty Law, Big Pharma, the War Machine and Corporate Food Producers).
But the whole family keeps their power by making sure everyone else is too distracted to even think that they are the life blood of the vampires from above.
Rather gloomy, no?
Namaste,
JaiChai
I like to keep it simple. Money never corrupts. Period. Money is freedom and opportunity. It merely reveals people. Religion is just communism for spirituality. It's a monopoly over spiritual development that's nothing but a perversion of spiritual growth.
If you understand the above 2 truths, you can manage your actions accordingly. Bad things only keep happening because people let them happen. They just turn the other cheek. I always respect a tyrant more than a coward. In fact I consider the silent masses who allow these war machines to continue as more evil than the tyrants. Evil in it's worst form is banal. Evil is "Well I know it's wrong. But it's not my jurisdiction." That is the face of Evil. The reality is nothing more or less than consequences. A person gives up this and hand over the working of the world to a system of structural violence is the most evil person. A with a mind of his/her own that succumb to not using it.
Ignorance is the root of all evil. Knowing and still not acting is like playing asleep. You can't wake those who refuse to act. The ignorant can be enlightened. But those who see and still turn way from wisdom are beyond redemption.
"You can fix ignorant, but stupid is just plain dangerous." - One of my first Gunny Sargeants
Namaste, my friend.
JaiChai
BTW,
I should have said "Bankers" instead of money. Money is just stored economical energy to be deployed at a later date. Neither good or bad.
Time really is money and vice-versa. Money frees up the precious string of moments we call life.
Namaste,
JaiChai
good post ever
@moshin01,
Appreciate you kind words.
Namaste,
JaiChai
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