Blind Justice

In the Eumenides the Furies are viewed as the bad guys because they want to kill Orestes. Granted, he did kill his mother, that's a point for another time. In all actuality, the Furies are only doing what they have been told to do, just as Orestes did. This raises the question as to why would you blindly follow the orders of someone else? But don't we in modern society do that? We don't ask why the laws are the way they are. We just follow them because someone "wiser" put them there. I read an interview that a newspaper did with an old Nazi soldier one time. They asked him why he did what he did and his response was, "I did what I was told to do. We all did. We weren't supposed to ask questions." More often than not we are rebuked for questioning authority. So how are we able to judge the Furies for doing what they were told when we do the same?