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Originally Posted by Fire
actually, it is derived from old scandinavian law- I got it out of a few of the norse sagas- and it does have its flaws like anything else, but it makes the concept of justice personal, and that is something that I think is not a bad thing, and would help our society run better......
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Yeah. Because what we need in our society is more violence and intolerance.
In my opinion, the law works best when it's decidedly
impersonal. Listen: when somebody puts a ding in my car door, I want to kill them. That's not an exaggeration. Fortunately for all of us, we live in a legal system that seriously inhibits my acting on that reaction.
Our society frowns on sailing around in longboats wearing horned helms, raping, looting, and pillaging the local villages. Perhaps in such a society, a system as (well, I'll say it) barbaric as the one you propose would be appropriate.
I don't think our system is great. It's broken in some fairly dramatic ways. But my inability to order the death or maiming of a person who injures me isn't one of them.