An eye for an eye means that when justice is exacted you allowed compensation for exactly what was taken.....no more. 1 stolen donkey = 1 donkey or the equivilent returned, someone steals $20, they return exactly $20, not $4500 as in the pain and suffering nonsense. It was never meant as a literal plucking out of one eye for another. Ghandi was a fool for using this an example, yet people that can't think believe it was a brilliant statement. Then again he was a major antisemite, so you can see why he would twist the Hebrew law like that.

An eye for an eye means that when justice is exacted you allowed compenation for exactly what was taken.....no more. 1 stolen donkey = 1 donkey or the equivilent returned, someone steals $20, they return exactly $20, not $4500 as in the pain and suffering nonsense. It was never meant as a literal plucking out of one eye for another. Ghandi was a fool for using this an example, yet people that can't think believe it was a brilliant statement. Then again he was a major antisemite, so you can see why he would twist the Hebrew law like that.