Hammurabi was a ruler in Babylon for 42 years. He is most known for his code of laws he made to protect the citizens in Babylon. He eventually ruled over an estimation of 1,000,000 people. He was asked by Shamash, the God of Justice, to write laws to protect the people of Babylon. Was Hammurabi’s Code of Law just? Hammurabi’s code was just because of it’s family law, property law, and personal injury law.
The code of laws for Family is just. If you think about it, families had to go though a lot! They had to fight diseases, other people trying to kill them, and much other things. People say that the laws are so terrible and cruel that they should make better ones. Well, if those laws were made that way for a reason, they should stay the same. …show more content…
If a man knocked out the eye of a free man, his eye shall be knocked out as well. The government puts people into social classes. The ones that own a house and also own land are in the social class called landowners. The ones that don’t own land are in the social class of the free people that don’t own land class, and the people that only own little houses made from mud are in the social class of slaves. Hammurabi’s code treats the people in each class differently. When you knock a free man’s eye out, you need to feel how he feels now. If you knock a slave’s eye out, you only have to pay half his value. A slave wasn’t as important as a free man was at the time. People will say that they should be treated equally. Even now people aren’t treated equally. When people see tall women with a short man,they think that isn’t right. Which I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. But people were treated differently at the time, which is just. People who don’t have money shouldn’t be treated like they do. If they are dirt poor, people see them as poor people, and nothing else. “If a surgeon has operated with a bronze lancet on the body of a free man…and saves the man’s life, he shall receive 10 shekels of silver.” ( Doc E) But if you lose the patient, your hands get cut off. If you mess up the operation, or if you intended on killing the person, you don’t deserve to keep your hands. If you accidentally did the wrong thing during the operation, people can’t risk having you operate on their family if your records show that you killed patients in the past. If the surgeon saves the lives, he should be rewarded, but he should also be punished for not saving
The code of laws for Family is just. If you think about it, families had to go though a lot! They had to fight diseases, other people trying to kill them, and much other things. People say that the laws are so terrible and cruel that they should make better ones. Well, if those laws were made that way for a reason, they should stay the same. …show more content…
If a man knocked out the eye of a free man, his eye shall be knocked out as well. The government puts people into social classes. The ones that own a house and also own land are in the social class called landowners. The ones that don’t own land are in the social class of the free people that don’t own land class, and the people that only own little houses made from mud are in the social class of slaves. Hammurabi’s code treats the people in each class differently. When you knock a free man’s eye out, you need to feel how he feels now. If you knock a slave’s eye out, you only have to pay half his value. A slave wasn’t as important as a free man was at the time. People will say that they should be treated equally. Even now people aren’t treated equally. When people see tall women with a short man,they think that isn’t right. Which I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. But people were treated differently at the time, which is just. People who don’t have money shouldn’t be treated like they do. If they are dirt poor, people see them as poor people, and nothing else. “If a surgeon has operated with a bronze lancet on the body of a free man…and saves the man’s life, he shall receive 10 shekels of silver.” ( Doc E) But if you lose the patient, your hands get cut off. If you mess up the operation, or if you intended on killing the person, you don’t deserve to keep your hands. If you accidentally did the wrong thing during the operation, people can’t risk having you operate on their family if your records show that you killed patients in the past. If the surgeon saves the lives, he should be rewarded, but he should also be punished for not saving