"The old law of an eye for an eye" said Martin Luther King Jr "leaves everybody blind." What was he talking about when he said this?
He was talking about the act of vengeance, and it is a word often used to explain and justify violence.
In the Wars of the Roses for instance, the violent actions of men like Jasper Tudor, Edward IV and John Clifford, were an act of personal vengeance. The death of Edmund of Rutland, who died the same day as his father, the Duke of York, this day in 1460, was an act of revenge that took place following the Battle of Wakefield.
He was talking about the act of vengeance, and it is a word often used to explain and justify violence.
In the Wars of the Roses for instance, the violent actions of men like Jasper Tudor, Edward IV and John Clifford, were an act of personal vengeance. The death of Edmund of Rutland, who died the same day as his father, the Duke of York, this day in 1460, was an act of revenge that took place following the Battle of Wakefield.
The actions of the above named men was allowed to happen because medieval law permitted vengeance, and as long as this kind of action is sanctioned by the king and carried out by one of his nominated officers it was not murder.
My blog on this subject of vengeance begins:
"Behavioral scientists who have studied revenge scanned the brains of people who had been wronged, the researchers gave these people a chance to punish the wrongdoers. As the victims considered revenge, it was noted that this action caused a notable amount of activity in what scientists call the Caudate Nucleus, an area in the brain that processes rewards, which the researchers equated to same feeling we feel when we smoke or eat chocolate." and continues at:
meanderingthroughtime.weebly.com/wars-of-the-roses-blog/vengeance-is-mine
My blog on this subject of vengeance begins:
"Behavioral scientists who have studied revenge scanned the brains of people who had been wronged, the researchers gave these people a chance to punish the wrongdoers. As the victims considered revenge, it was noted that this action caused a notable amount of activity in what scientists call the Caudate Nucleus, an area in the brain that processes rewards, which the researchers equated to same feeling we feel when we smoke or eat chocolate." and continues at:
meanderingthroughtime.weebly.com/wars-of-the-roses-blog/vengeance-is-mine
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