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Originally Posted by Brooke
No, seriously, the germanic tribes had a concept of werguild - where revenge for a life taken was permissable, and even expected, but it wasnt based on any principle, except an eye for an eye, a tooth for a molar....whatnot. And today, even people who do kill, they are sentenced to life in prison (scott peterson being the recent exception)
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So what are you arguing? That they didn't have an idea of murder? It was a life for a life. If you murded someone you got killed, we still do this.