Hammurabi

I will be your angel or your curse. Treat me well, I will treat you better; treat me badly, I will treat you worse. Loyalty – the least of virtues – has nothing to do with it. I am not loyal; I am devoted. Justice, also – an hypocrisy, a parody – has nothing to do with it. It is about balance, right, as in equitability, as in parity; not in its moral sense, as opposed to wrong. There is no subjective right and wrong, no good and bad. There are only balance and imbalance – universal, eternal, unequivocal. Life shall go for life, eye for an eye, tooth for tooth. –  part of Hammurabi’s code, the ancient Mesopotamian Empire, 18th century BCE, during the rule of Hammurabi.