Dinah wept!
and what
price can be expected of her violators to muster? what confession may bear remedy
in the kingly tribunal and in conscience with God the just, if any? is not the
only expiation for such desecration and offensive wrong-doing to reject all
standards of modern judicial praxis and to give unto the beast in man a calling…
and to raise the fire of revenge deep within there somewhere obscurely buried?
would it not be fair for the victim of a violent rape
to decide herself the punishment bestowed on her perpetrator?
people tell me that that is not fair,
not humanitarian,
not civilized.
but why?
i think
that the Babylonian way of doing things
is legitimate in many cases.
Dinah wept…
and Simeon and Levi, her brothers, had not only the
rapist killed, but all and every male in the city of Shechem had to taste their
wrath.
(that
was a bit exaggerated for my tastes,
it was
too identitarian for me to kill everyone;
very
unnecessary albeit visually and poetically
appealing. it conflicts with my existentialist core
principles, yet i love the revenge aspect of
this
Biblical story.)
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