Human Savagery, Lex Talionis, and The Golden Rule

An extraction from the book, Adeology

From the chapter: Morality

One might like to tell oneself that there is a punishment befitting every crime, but that would be a delusion—for the extremes of human depravity know only the bounds of human imagination, the laws of physics, and the moral malleability of those willing to consider themselves the arbiters of judicial retribution.