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Thread #28535   Message #354570
Posted By: Naemanson
10-Dec-00 - 04:58 PM
Thread Name: BS: More etymology
Subject: RE: BS: More etymology
For those who remember Robert Heinlein a lot of his future worlds were based on a form of anarchy and an "eye for and eye" kind of justice. I remember one story where the vigilantes were punishing a person guilty of careless diving. He had hit someone with his car and broken his leg. They were arranging the driver in the road so they could drive a car over his leg.

That's and eye for an eye, or more accurately a leg for a leg.