>Also spoken as "an eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind"
I've noticed that this proverb only seems to comes up when disadvantaged people (who are already missing a metaphorical eye) strike back at the people who put them in that disadvantaged state to begin with.
No, it was a lesson I've learned hard in my own life. When I was younger I was caught up in the pinch of the 2008 market. I had to quit university and move across the country to find some work.
I harboured a lot of bitterness and built up ideals that were not based in reality. It took some time for me to realize that it's never as simple a situation as you want it to be, and no amount of pain inflicted against the simplified other that you've created for yourself will rectify anything.
Blindly attacking anything that resembles the enemy you've crafted in your own mind will just end up hurting a lot of others like yourself, and most of all: oneself.
For the record, it was Ghandi who said that. It's about rising above the condition of those who hurt you in order to not become the thing you resented. What do you benefit the world simply usurping your detractor(s)?
I've noticed that this proverb only seems to comes up when disadvantaged people (who are already missing a metaphorical eye) strike back at the people who put them in that disadvantaged state to begin with.