PrometheusBound
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No, we should progress to "an eye for a tooth." A criminal must be considered not as someone who committed a specific crime, but as some enemy of mankind who got caught once and revealed which side he was on. Second, "a tooth for a tooth" is like telling a bank robber all he has to do is give the money back, because that was all his crime was. Any society that allows criminals to live is replacing its life force with a death wish.Yes, it is...very much so..
The whole thing was set up on the Biblical "an eye for an eye".
This is what we should be trying to progress from.
Right now, there is little difference between the victim and the villain.
This "progress"may take another thousand years. But today we must take the first step.