Shouldn't there be more Christians with eye patches?

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Matthew 5:29
And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out,
and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for
thee that one of thy members should perish, and
not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Well, since Christ usually speaks parables in the Bible, one should probably know that this wasn't meant to have a literal meaning. Else, Peter should have had cut out his tongue, before he could deny Christ a second time.