[ZeroGravitas]

> back to eye for an eye.

One thing that's missed about the whole "eye for an eye" thing, is that at the time, it was a step forward from the status quo. A way to prevent a lost eye becoming a lost arm becoming a lost life, becoming 3 lost lives and so on.

Now it's become a by-word for barbarity, but it was state of the art of civilization at one point, thousands of years ago.

And sadly, if 'eye for an eye' was the rule followed in the current conflict, there would be less criticism of the Israeli government's response, as there'd be a lot less dead people.