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by V2hLe0ThslzRaV2 3036 days ago
"Lex talionis" sounds a lot like "an eye for an eye" - which I might be wrong, but that phrase/idiom has religious origins.
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I always find these claims not persuasive, where some modern laws of physics can supposedly be aligned or derived from some historical religious concepts that no one ever used to make any predictions that could be verified by science until we started working backwards. There are some brilliant and lovely ideas in the historical texts that have survived to this day, but.... I just don't see that god passed on ideas to the authors of those texts.