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courts, even VERY old ones, were/are society's solution to fueds, vigilantiism and chaos. even kings needed to control conflict among their subjects such that they remained productive to the goals of the king and NOT distracted from these, by wasted energy on conflict.
To think they are only to met out a precisely weighted, exact, measure of justice, is to not understand the meaning of the word in the context of the human experience.
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