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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.
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So in other words, if you took out someone's eye, you would just pay them a load of cash? Still sounds like a bullshit saying to me.