nah I'm an irish Pollock but do you want it to stop?
disclaimer this is just the opinion of a drunken idiot
I'm asking because muslims are biggest proponents of lex talionis in 21st century. Closely followed by jews, but since many of them are secular only their government sticks to that rule. Your own government tried it couple of times, only made things worse...
Germans were also big into it during WWII, expect it wasn't eye for an eye. More like an eye for 100 foreign eyes.
It just doesn't work because you can't reason with madmen, not even if you attempt their logic. It always, and I'm mean always, spirals out and never stops.