Love Your Enemies

[No Vested Interest]

5. It's not unusual for one who causes evil to be injured or sickened by their own doing.

Think of the drunken driver who becomes injured and maimed by an accident he caused.
Or the thief shot and sometimes killed by the homeowner.

It's not especially hard for us to take the emotion out of the situation and realize on a rational basis that the perpetrator did in fact cause his/her own injury and ensuing problem, but that the result for him does not have to be tit-for-tat.

That is why so many of us oppose the death penalty.
We are not seeking vindictive revenge, even though the perpetrator patently did wrong.
We do not seek "an eye for an eye".

"Love" your enemies might be a little tough to conjure up, but surely we can wish them no harm and hope for future redemption.