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jonathanrdt t1_j19pevl wrote on December 22, 2022 at 6:24 PM

Reply to comment by ChallyPrime in After decades in prison, exonerated Philadelphia man was fatally shot at a funeral by kittehstrophic

We do not generally subscribe to a modern ethos, so most confuse justice and revenge. The earliest codes of laws conflate the two: Code of Hammurabi is where we get ‘an eye for an eye’. We have done much better since, but we still have far to go.