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Editorial - Banned Books

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joan de arc portrait http://www.lib.utexas.edu/exhibits/portraits/index.html?img=202

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joan de arc info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc

The avenger is difficult to detemine as good or evil. If someone has been harmed and seeks revenge, usually by violent means, who is really at fault? Is the avenger evil because they killed their bother's murderer? Are they good because they removed and evil person from the world and prevented them from harming anyone else, even though they did this in a way that would be considered evil? When we consider it this way it takes us back to the very nature of the law. Is an eye for an eye a really a harsh punishment as modern society suggest or was Hammurabi's code somewhat more right than people realized? Sure you can say its not fair to take away my eye for an accident, but can you prove that it was a accident? And what if it was your eye? Would you think it fair that the person who harmed you should walk away with his own eye? The need for revenge is a part of the human mind that is difficult to understand. Whenever we are wronged we wish ill upon the other. It is a part of our nature. This being so can it be wrong? A third party observer may feel that revenge is a silly a pointless thing, "When you fight fire with fire all you get is burned," (<<get actual quote) but how can they know what is right? What about the victum? What is right for them? The avenger achetype stays with us because these questions are still unanswered. People will always be wronged and wish for revenge and this need for vengence can become so strong that it causes us as humans to strange and desperate things. No matter where the world goes there will eventually be injustice or wrong doing and an avenger will always appear to tip the scales.

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