Eye for an eye

In an ideal world, nobody would hurt others’ property (or others, but that’s not what has induced this current rant).  This isn’t an ideal world.  In a more-satisfying world, people who screwed up others’ property would have their own property damaged to an equivalent extent.  For instance, I’m betting whoever it was who keyed our neighbors’ car along the entirety of one side, to the point that the key made a massive dent in the side of the car at the beginning of the strike, would be severely pissed off if the same thing was done to their own car.  (Or, if they don’t have a car, their bicycle or their iPod or whatever.) So what makes them think it’s okay to do that to someone else?  Perhaps, if things were more tit-for-tat, stupid people would think twice about damaging others’ property.

Grrrr.  Pissed off.