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Thread #99255   Message #1976370
Posted By: autolycus
22-Feb-07 - 05:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: taboo philosophical questions
Subject: RE: BS: taboo philosophical questions
Just a detail.

   "An eye for an eye...(etc)" doesn't mean,"If you take my eye out, one of yours must come out too."

   It means that the response to a crime must be appropriate and - er - just.

   NALOPKT






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