On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:17:20AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> The two are not mutually exclusive.  The traditional interpretation 
> of
> the "eye for an eye" verse is that the punishment should fit the crime,
> but not exceed it, i.e. "an eye for an eye", not two eyes or a life.
> This was a somewhat radical concept at the time.

Well, in Romania the punishment for stealing an apple or milions of 
euros is pretty similar. So not even *that* concept is correctly 
applied.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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