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What does eye for an eye mean?

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Noun
  1. compensation for injury caused by a person, in the form of inflicting an identical injury on that person.
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Jesus preached love thy neighbour and told people not to take an eye for an eye.
The Babylonian Code of Hammurabi called for an eye for an eye long before the Israelite law did.
Yes, I know the old Bob Dylan song, that if we take an eye for an eye we'll just end up blind.
So, according to the justice, God had to give them clear standards in judging, saying an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
However, as Gandhi explained, the norm of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth could render most of the world blind and toothless.
The masses want an eye for an eye, the Law of Moses, implemented post-haste.

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