The old adage of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth should be the

cornerstone of the law in a just society. The Tall Man Blood on the Wattle
In a just society, the law functions on the basis of what is right and wrong and
not what is a suitable equal repayment. The law should not be based on the
archaic saying of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. A just society cannot
function without losing the pretence of just if it were to take this adage to heart
and use it as the cornerstone of law. It is impossible to use the saying and also
stay just when people take revenge and letting it only create more.
Although it may seem just to repay the same amount of damage to the
perpetrators, doing so causes an endless cycle of injustice. To perpetrate
revenge in the same amount dealt is inherently unjust. This way of thinking can
only create more and more injustice. Therefore, repaying in an equal amount will
not end the injustice, but only give rise to more. It becomes hard to pin down a
single aggressor and so, reciprocating any form of violence leads to further
injustice. People of a certain subset of society may band together to cause
injustice on other people of a different subset. Lack of the inciters identity
results in the victims becoming the attackers when they make a generalisation of
who to exact revenge on. An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind
is a profound statement that highlights the endless cycle of revenge that can be
created out of a want for equal justice. When Mahatma Ghandi said that
revenge makes the world blind he was referencing the worlds obliviousness to
itself by personifying its lack of clarity and the ambiguity of its justice system. On
(DATE) after the Ferguson shooting of Michael Brown, riots began in the
cosmopolitan society of Missouri. Ferguson had a lopsided ration of black to
white people with the minority a majority at approximately eighty to twenty
percent. No justice, no peace, no racist police was a slogan the rioters used to
combat against the oppression of the police force. The rioters were causing an
injustice because they tried to repay the sin of Michael Browns death against the
entire police force even though only one police officer, Darren Wilson was the
one who committed the killing. Similarly, in The Tall Man documentary, the
oppressed went against the police force with copper revenge. The imbalance of
justice makes it impossible to successfully exact an equal revenge as revenge
only results in further injustice. The weight and value of peoples lives and
morals cannot be balanced against each other to come to a conclusion that
satisfies both parties involved. In the documentary, the initial injustice had
begun with Cameron Doomadgee punching Chris Hurley in the face on (DATE).
Going against the eye for an eye philosophy, Chris Hurley had killed Cameron
Doomadgee in a violent bloodlust. When the indigenous people tried to revolt
against the police, they burnt down the police station as an eye for an eye. The
problem lies in the fact that the aboriginal people perpetrated the attack as a
reply to Chris Hurleys injustice, but they had attacked the entire police
department. Revenge gives birth to additional revenge and so, the injustice will
continue to occur further and further.