Matthew 18:9 - And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better to enter life with one eye than to be cast into the Gehenna of fire with two eyes.
Feet and arms and hands cause sin through the mind, but also through the eyes. We see what we want and we take it. We see things that cause desire in us and we act on them. Yet, the eyes are also the window to the soul. If our eyes are only seeing things we want - objects - then we will never treat others as people - subjects with agency of their own. This breaks the relationship.
This addition to the 10 commandments underscores their main point - other people are beloved of God. Other people count just as much as you. It is hard for me to witness others who treat people as objects, things to be used and cast away.
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