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You seem to think that when someone is assaulting someone, it somehow turns into a mutual MMA match where both fighter are trained enough to to harm each other

You seem to think that when someone is assaulting someone, it somehow turns into a mutual MMA match where both fighter are trained enough to to harm each other permanently. I hope you realize how ridiculous this sounds. And even in actual MMA, strikes to the head can make you concussed, which carries an increased risk of dementia and other ailments. So fighting is still the "eye" no matter which way you look at it, and should be punished accordingly, no matter what the actual outcome is. "Tooth" would be yelling and shouting, which is how normal adults should express anger It doesn't matter if this type of punishment is a deterrent or not, the most important thing is to remove people like that from society, permanently.

xkcd1963 2y ago
Is not fun talking with you. Say a parent hits his child of course the child can't hit the same way back but thats another story. The point is violence has different degrees and can escalate. Eye for and eye and tooth for a tooth is to say that if you hit my eye black or if I lose a teeth, its not enough to apologise. I mean on paper it sounds reasonable but in the context of this story its wrong to jail someone infinitelly for a brawl. If it was a serial killer I would agree with you. A murder? Idk maybe it was in self defense. Its complicated and there is no easy solution.