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The test of our progression as a race lies in whether we continiue to hold on to this "eye for an eye" mentality or not.
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I'm not disagreeing with your point, but I feel the need to point out to everyone who uses the phrase that it's the most taken-out-of-context quote of all time. Ancient Jewish rabbis (
yes, it's a biblical quote, in case you didn't know) understood the phrase to mean that if you injure someone's eye or knock out a tooth, you have to pay compensation to the value of that eye or tooth. How do you do this? You go to a slave trader (
What?! We're talking 1000BC here) and ask what the value of the man is with an eye and without and pay the difference.