So here's just another little Jewish story.
Moses is up on Mount Sinai with God, watching all the other Jews below. He sees a man go to a stream for water and lose his purse without noticing, then go away. A second man comes, picks up the purse and goes off with it. A third comes -- and then the first comes back and asks the third if he's seen a stray purse. The third man, of course, says no. But the first doesn't believe him and kills him.
Moses asks God how he can let such things happen.
God explains: The first man had stolen the purse. The second was the real owner. The third, who seemed just an innocent bystander, had in fact killed the thief's father -- so while the thief was wrong to kill him, he was only getting what he had coming to him.
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