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Restoration demands both justice and purification

It didn’t occur to me until reading Matt Webb’s musings, but sometimes direct restitution is insufficient for true justice. Webb quotes a 1917 paper by Walter W. Hyde called The Prosecution of Lifeless Things and Animals in Greek Law: Part I to make his case that Greeks felt that, even if the perpetrator of a crime could not be brougt to justice, the community still required purification from the offense.…