(September 5, 2013 at 1:21 pm)John V Wrote:(September 5, 2013 at 1:15 pm)max-greece Wrote: My point exactly. To you and God it doesn't matter who the initial aggressor was - the woman still gets her hand cut off for the "crime" of handling the other guy's penis.Do you think she was let off the hook if she kicked the man, or hit his nuts with a hammer?
I don't know - the verse makes no mention of it.
Lets be straight here - I had no idea this verse existed until the op brought it up and then, tbh, I doubted it enough to get my bible out and check.
You have to admit it is a very strange law and very specific. It does appear it is the fact that her hand touched another man's penis/testicles that is the problem. Who is at fault, whether or not it was accidental and whether or not any lasting damage was done doesn't carry any water - she loses her hand.
Frankly - you tell me - this is too alien a legal framework for me to make head nor tail of it.
