My wife and I had an interesting discussion over the weekend as Lex Talionis was on full display in the series between the Oakland A's and the Kansas City Royals. If you didn't follow the games, one of their players slid into one of ours and injured him. One of the laws in baseball is this: you mess with one of our guys, we hit one of yours. So it went back and forth the entire series.
Trisha said that it was wrong to retaliate. I replied, "When it comes to hitting someone with a pitch, baseball is a self-regulating game with built-in rules that everyone follows." She didn't buy my answer and still insisted that it was wrong.
I may be wrong, but I maintain that it is OK. It does make you think, though, about Lex Talionis in life. What if everyone operated according to the law of retaliation? And maybe we do. I hear a lot of people about the word "Karma" when they someone punished for am unkind deed. Perhaps we are more retaliatory than we imagine.
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