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.( "An Eye For an Eye" Internet Symbol

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A new internet symbol has been designed as a mark of solidarity and empathy with all people, and especially all Afghan people, living in fear and devastation due to the current climate of hatred.



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A one-eyed unhappy face connotes the biblical justification for vengeance, "An eye for an eye". As freedom-lovers, we find this an unacceptable and unethical justification.

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Hatred creates a blindness to suffering; and a reasonable prediction that unhappiness will be brought upon all by the blindness of hatred.

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A blinding emotional anguish is currently being experienced in collective consciousness by people of many faiths, cultures and family clans around the world in the face of the brutality of vengeance.

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Colateral damage is real damage.

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Vision is a military power tool. Surveillance invades visual privacy.

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As freedom-lovers, we acknowledge the current blindness of dogma-based power vectors: nationalism, patriarchism, capitalism, militarism and religious extremism."