The world is omnijust. If it happened to you, it means you deserved it. However, this doesn't mean that retaliation is unjust; on the contrary, if you can defect onto the defector, then they deserved it too. If it works, it must have been just.
The girl walking through the ghetto wearing two belts was indeed asking for it, but that doesn't mean it's in any way wrong or bad to execute the rapist. Further to the contrary, if I don't retaliate, I tell the world it wasn't defection. I'm cooperating with them. I'm saying not only that I deserved it, but I deserve to have it happen again. Gnon will hear this prayer as worded.
Turning the other cheek doesn't make me virtuous. It doesn't mean I'm a poor victim, tears, woe, who needs and deserves a saviour. It's consent. "Yes, you have my permission to strike the other cheek. Please, go ahead." It's not punishment anymore, not an attack, it's BDSM. Not a joke. Although it is hilarious.
If a mugger tries to shoot me and I don't even try to dodge, then it's not murder, it's suicide. I take the responsibility away from the defector. Suicides are not martyrs. The response to the event matters, regardless of how much I might have deserved the event in the first place.
If a mugger tries to shoot me, I don't dodge, and I die, it's a suicide and I deserved to get suicided. If I do try to dodge and they miss, it means I didn't deserve to get shot. If I try to dodge, get clipped, then execute the mugger for attempted murder, then I deserve to deter mugging.
If my government robs me and I don't do anything to deter government robbery, then I deserve to get robbed again.
The response matters, and it's flagrantly dishonourable to forgive someone who has not repented. Repentance only means paying it back. Actions, not words.
Either be your own hero, or responsibly hire someone to hero on your behalf.
i am dubious about the ability to hire a hero. security is always affordable, but the wealth cap also exists, meaning the amount of security affordable is limited.
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it feels like you can't really hire a hero to do anything you can't already do yourself. to the extent you can, either you won't appreciate the difference (and thus a billionaire becomes a millionaire), or he will take back the difference later (because he's a hero and can just take it).
the difference is only in time and place, to be somewhere else while the hired hero does what you would've done yourself. which admittedly is one of the amazing benefits of trade.
I have nothing to add.
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