Hammurabi's Code Was It Just Dbq Analysis

Hammurabi’s Code: Was It Just Being pierced or hung through holes, being disowned by your father, and getting your hands cut off (Doc D and Doc E)... that was Hammurabi’s code of laws. Hammurabi was the king of Babylon about 4,000 years ago, and he was most known for his code of laws. Hammurabi wrote 282 laws on a giant stone called a stele (BGE). Was Hammurabi’s code of Laws just? It is clear to see that they were not. Even though Hammurabi had three tries to make his laws fair, which were family law, property law and personal-injury law, he could’t do it. One area in Hammurabi’s code was Family Law. These unfair Laws start out with number 129. Hammurabi says “If a married lady is caught in adultery with another man, they shall bind them and cast them in the water.” Another one of Hammurabi’s unjust laws is number 168. Hammurabi says that if a child has committed a grave misdemeanor, his father may disinherit him. (Doc C). These laws are both unjust because everybody makes mistakes...nobody's perfect! These laws are also very sexist. How is it going …show more content…
Law 218 says that if a surgeon operates on a free man with a bronze lancet and the man dies the surgeons hands shall be cut off (Doc E). This law is so unfair for so many reasons. One of these reasons is what if the man was going to die anyway the surgeon couldn’t do anything about that so why should he lose his hands for it? Hammurabi also wrote laws 196 and law 199. Together these laws state that if a man has knocked out the eye of a free man his eye shall be knocked out but if a man knocks out the eye of a slave he shall pay half his value (Doc E). Everyone is equal, slave or not slave. This law is also very unfair because a man can’t choose if he is born into a slave family or what color he is. If a man knows that he will only have to pay half a slaves value he could knock out a slaves eye whenever he wanted to, how was that fair to the