Thursday, July 07, 2011
The mercy of an eye for an eye
Although, in all fairness to the earliest centuries, when a rule of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth was instituted it WAS more merciful than the blood vengeance described by, say Tubal-Cain who demanded that if Cain's blood vengeance was to be 7 fold then Tubal-Cain would be 70 fold (70 times greater) and so if one person was murdered than an entire clan or tribe or town would be murdered. The Americans did this in the Philippines around 1902 (under Pres. McKinley)... one American soldier was killed and so the American soldiers rode on a train and annihilated each village they came to.
