An Eye for an Eye…. I believe I used this same title for an earlier blog, but it fits, so I will use it again. It’s not the first time I have encountered the notion of blood feuds. I think many of us in the U.S. grew up with the stories of the 30-year-long Hatfield and McCoy feud that took place in the late 1800s in the rural mountains of Virginia and Kentucky. That battle between two extended families was even caricatured with cartoons depicting what were considered humorous incidences of backwoods and backward members of the families taking potshots at each other at every opportunity. The actual feud began with the death of a member of the McCoy family who returned home after fighting in the civil war for the Union and was killed for ‘disloyalty’ by a Hatfield relative who was a member of a group of ex-confederate home guards. Over a dozen members of the two families were killed as a result of the ensuing campaign of vengeance. I came across the concept of family f