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Prince, as was indicated in other posts in this thread, there are moral issues of suggesting such a "fair" punishment.
Taking out the big picture, as that's been handled somewhat already, let's parse your own suggestion: you say that it's fair to blind someone who had blinded another. What you have done to another will be done unto you, in all "fairness."
Does this mean it would be proper to teach a child to hit their sibling back to make things "fair"? On a more serious note, if a man murders another's wife in jealousy, is it "fair" to put the first man's wife to death? That sounds "fair," doesn't it?
I want to add, generally, that I'm a bit disturbed that there's yet another person here who's taken the same side of moral legal "justice" on this issue as the minority Iran and Saudi Arabia.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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