There is plausible scholarship suggesting that this is meant to be a limitation on unjust retaliatory punishments (e.g. killing or maiming someone for theft), and I believe the Talmud goes into quite a bit of detail on situations where no equivalent or balanced punishment/requirement is possible.
(And yes, agreed, it's Complicated and simplification makes it get really shitty really fast.)
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Date: 2017-11-03 01:35 pm (UTC)There is plausible scholarship suggesting that this is meant to be a limitation on unjust retaliatory punishments (e.g. killing or maiming someone for theft), and I believe the Talmud goes into quite a bit of detail on situations where no equivalent or balanced punishment/requirement is possible.
(And yes, agreed, it's Complicated and simplification makes it get really shitty really fast.)