Simple talion may be fine for wartime, but politics between wars demands symmetry and a more elegant idea of justice, even to the point of masquerading

Human behavior being pure talion

When a subject is hurt in such a devastating way that the very idea of revenge according to ius talionis is no less ridiculous than the promise of the reconciliation with the perpetrator after the perpetrator’s atonement

The first thing to do here is to assert the priority of the Jewish principle of just revenge/punishment – an ‘eye for an eye’, the ius talionis – over the standard formula of ‘we will forgive your crime, but we will not forget it’.