I was wondering, @folk1e - I posted a start to a possible alternative thread called something like "This hideous war" when one of the threads in BS became unopenable, and it disappeared; there was nothing particularly offensive about it; I was musing in this post that possibly the biblical/Torah injunction "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth", which I've long regarded as vengeful, was actually an instruction to limit revenge to the level of the original offence. So that killing 8,000 people in revenge for the killing of 1,400 people is bringing revenge to extremity.

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That thread is in good standing, it's Mudcat that's a little bit broken right now. ---mudelf