After dropping this gem of a quote:

Court decisions give followers a guide book to society's mental health.

Barbara Amiel of London's Daily Telegraph shares this tale of "primitive justice":

This December, in Pakistan, a court convicted a man of blinding his ex-fiancée with acid. His penalty was to have acid drops put into his own eyes. This may be an extremely primitive form of justice ("primitive" being a word today's Lenny Bruces use at their peril, given that it has connotations of Western arrogance) but it is hard to condemn it as not being just. The same can be said of the judicial expression of many cultures we call primitive. Though they may be cruel, they are rarely unjust.

Guess Pakistan takes that "eye for an eye" stuff seriously...