This article made me think. The moral argument that I would pose is
'A society that reacts to unjust behaviour in such a matter by definition makes people react to perceived injustice with vengeful cruelty'
In simpler English. If a society promotes eye for an eye tactics, it makes its own people act cruel. When that man suffered 'injustice' (As he saw it, being forever denied) he decided to react by forever denying the victim her looks. I think that it is a vicious circle that plunges societies to cruelty and does not really stop the crime.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7754756.stm
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