[ytadesse]

"It's good for the same reasons that they came down so harshly on Aaron -- to make an example"

Making an example of someone in retribution for it happening to someone else is eye-for-an-eye.

[jlgreco]

No, it really is not. The two are wildly out of proportion.

You can simplify any crime imaginable and any punishment imaginable to declare the combination of the two "an eye for an eye", as you have just done here, does not make such a declaration legitimate.

[darkarmani]

Let's see if it matches up:

1. We need to make an example out of him and try to lock him up for 35 years.

2. We need to make an example out of her and get her fired.