Hammurabi Code Of Laws

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It is wild to think that those laws as old as they are still have an impact in today's world. The eye for an eye concept is "genius", but it isn't something we are capable of achieving. We are always going to go a step further. I think had his laws not been created, I wouldn't go as far as to say that our criminal justice system would be completely different, because Mosses would still have brought the ten commandments. I think we could recreate what Hammurabi did, since her borrowed alot of different laws from other places.

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