eye for an eye
To reward violent acts, no matter how noble or good the cause may seem to be, it is still an invitation to perpetuate more violent acts; bloodthirsty and blind.
'He butchered three of them with an ax and decapitated them. In other words, instead of using a gun to kill them he took a hatchet to chop their heads off. He struggled face to face with one of them, and throwing down his ax managed to break his neck and devour his flesh in front of his comrades...I...award him the Medal of the Republic.' -General Mustafa T'las, Syria's minister of defense, praising a hero of the 1973 war with Israel before the Syrian National Assembly
'Appeasing of governments which revel in slaughter is an invitation to worldwide catastrophe.' -Fang Lizhi
'He butchered three of them with an ax and decapitated them. In other words, instead of using a gun to kill them he took a hatchet to chop their heads off. He struggled face to face with one of them, and throwing down his ax managed to break his neck and devour his flesh in front of his comrades...I...award him the Medal of the Republic.' -General Mustafa T'las, Syria's minister of defense, praising a hero of the 1973 war with Israel before the Syrian National Assembly
'Appeasing of governments which revel in slaughter is an invitation to worldwide catastrophe.' -Fang Lizhi