But with children,he says, once they learn something, it can become a reflex.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

The law of talion, which is essentially the principle that a person should be punished according to the injury they inflicted, it's been decried as a primitive, archaic reflex of the vengeance or vendetta principle.

复仇法，本质上讲述了人应该根据其所造成的伤害,接受处罚的原则，却遭到了谴责，人们认为它是,复仇或仇杀原则原始古老的反映。

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"So,I think that was a source of concern, maybe just a reflex sale."

VOA: standard.2009.10.15