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		reneherse on Feb 28, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Surgery implants tooth material in eye as scaffold... What are the moral and legal implications of such a surgery? An eye for a tooth, a tooth for an eye?

__MatrixMan__ on Feb 28, 2025 [–]

If you damage somebody's eye which happens to have their tooth embedded in it, then justice means takeing one of your eyes and one of your teeth. Pretty sure it's a footnote in Hammurabi somewhere...

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