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This phrase can have one of 3 meanings the Metaphorical sense: meaning one aggressive or harmful action commited against a person is moraly equal to that person commiting an aggressive or harmful action towords against his or her aggressor. The other meaning is the Entirely Literal sense of the phrase: in which one person has there eye taken by an other and so then takes that persons eye as retribution. There is also the Half Metaphorical meaning: which is one action that is aggressive or harmful towords a person or a body of people makes it moraly acceptable to take that aggressors eye as retribution
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