An eye for an eye

We all heared about the talion principle, or the way we named it today, the retaliation rule:

"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"

This way of justice comes from the oldest written "code of law" in the world, the Code of Hamurabi, the king of Balylon.

What was a simple and pragmatic approach of justice in the middle-age, for illiterate sheperds in the desert, is still in a self proclaimed modern country, the way conflicts are solved. To make it worst, where the old talion rule was directed to either the culprit or at worst his close family, it's now extended to what may be defined as a foreign tribe, based on thousands years of genealogic tree.

Getting old, it's harder to adapt to modernity. Hopefully, dark ages are back....

Champagne !