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Originally Posted by AdAstra2009
Are they not the same? Hammurabi's code anyone...
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No they're not the same. If I damage your fence, having justice would mean I paid to repair it. Revenge would be if you destroyed my fence in retaliation. Now nobody has a fence and we have a feud.
Hammurabi's code is where we get an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, and as Gandhi said
"An eye for an eye ends in making everybody blind."