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Published: 21.04.2004.
Language: English
Level: Elementary school
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  • Essays 'An Eye for an Eye, and a Tooth for a Tooth', 1.
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In the Bible are said “An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth, But I say to you, do not resist an evil person; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.’’ This statement is easy to illustrate. We don’t have to describe how we understand this statement only have to look around. Did you remember developments of the 11th of September? The one of the presidents ‘’didn’t turn the other cheek, but smite back’’. And there is a result- many people abiding for war.
I am against this statement, ‘’An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth’’, because I would better live in the non-criminal world.
Eye for an Eye” and “Tooth for a Tooth” remains to be two of the 282 laws of justice that Hammurabi established..
I personally believe that execution is an effective deterrent of crime.…

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