Just like you kill us, we will kill you.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- A direct threat of reciprocal violence in response to being killed.
- In plain terms
- If you kill us, we will kill you in return.
- What can you take from it?
- Violence is met with equal and opposite violence.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do conflicts escalate?
- What stops cycles of violence?
Another view
The statement reduces complex conflict to simple tit-for-tat violence.
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