Eye for an Eye, Aye Aye

I'd like to know what in the world closure is. As commonly used nowadays it generally means "somebody's got to pay" for whatever harm has befallen oneself or a loved one. It's as if the meting out of punishment is sufficient to end heartache and suffering, and the harsher the better. It's a kind of emotional enema. In Old Testament times they thought in terms of real honest to crackers retribution, like the hand of God blasting down from on high in the form of a lightning bolt and smiting whoever the bad 'ites of the moment were. Nowadays it's a matter of a law suit, or a bad guy getting longer than ten to twenty. Whatever happened to forgiveness? Ask the Amish. They got it right.