Proportional Retribution and Fairness
See my icon? It's Yuuko, the Witch of Time and Space from xxxHolic, she has a shop that grants you wishes if you pay with something of yours that is of equal worth. Change and Fairness is a big theme in xxxHolic, that if you take something you must pay for it.
There was a woman who wanted a photograph destroyed. Her dead friend is haunting it, showing through the photo how her 'friend' pushed her off the cliff. She said she'll pay anything.
Yuuko destroyed the photo for her, and give her the price as this: the woman must never allow her image to be captured again - or the ghost would show up and show everyone what the woman did.
Yuuko notes to Watanuki that such terms are almost impossible to keep in today's world, where there are cameras and videocams everywhere. It might be possible so said, if the murderer never meet anyone again, and never go out, because the price for taking someone's life is great, enough to crush someone.
It's something I think about all the time, fairness, how even when the universe is unfair, it will remember YOU being unfair. I think there is something wrong with me, and I'm lucky that it's only some, that I felt unsafe as a child some times, safe and loved at other times. I wonder how different I would be if I was one of those who never, ever, felt safe and loved, at all.
So woman stops in front of me on the stairway to text, and I think about pushing her - but I don't do it, because it isn't fair. What exact thing to do that would be fair, I don't know what, and I don't know how to do it, but that is no excuse, to escalate anything and indulge in overkill. Even if you have the power to, even if you could get away with it, the universe will remember.
There was a woman who wanted a photograph destroyed. Her dead friend is haunting it, showing through the photo how her 'friend' pushed her off the cliff. She said she'll pay anything.
Yuuko destroyed the photo for her, and give her the price as this: the woman must never allow her image to be captured again - or the ghost would show up and show everyone what the woman did.
Yuuko notes to Watanuki that such terms are almost impossible to keep in today's world, where there are cameras and videocams everywhere. It might be possible so said, if the murderer never meet anyone again, and never go out, because the price for taking someone's life is great, enough to crush someone.
It's something I think about all the time, fairness, how even when the universe is unfair, it will remember YOU being unfair. I think there is something wrong with me, and I'm lucky that it's only some, that I felt unsafe as a child some times, safe and loved at other times. I wonder how different I would be if I was one of those who never, ever, felt safe and loved, at all.
So woman stops in front of me on the stairway to text, and I think about pushing her - but I don't do it, because it isn't fair. What exact thing to do that would be fair, I don't know what, and I don't know how to do it, but that is no excuse, to escalate anything and indulge in overkill. Even if you have the power to, even if you could get away with it, the universe will remember.