Also, how people were treated depended where they were born on the social ladder or their gender. An example of this is how doctors who accidentally kill slaves would just replace them with new ones. I find this very wrong in my opinion, knowing that slaves are also humans too with human actions, and should not be replaceable whether they’re wealthy or poor. The main problem with this is if other people get accidentally killed by a doctor, though is a higher class than slaves. The doctors don’t replace them, but get their hands chopped off. This is because slaves are “treated like property” to a free human, and are known to not be as important as others who are higher along the chain of the social classes. Code 219. “If a physician makes a large incision in the slave of a freed man and kills him, he shall replace the slave with another slave.” According to Hammurabi’s Code. Another reason why I believe Hammurabi’s Code is unjust was how if a woman overcharged somebody for a drink they would immediately drown her for it. The reason I think this is unjust is because it covers two of my previous points in my thesis statement, unbalanced gender equality, and harsh punishments. Based on Hammurabi’s Code, unbalanced gender equality was normal back then with women being
Also, how people were treated depended where they were born on the social ladder or their gender. An example of this is how doctors who accidentally kill slaves would just replace them with new ones. I find this very wrong in my opinion, knowing that slaves are also humans too with human actions, and should not be replaceable whether they’re wealthy or poor. The main problem with this is if other people get accidentally killed by a doctor, though is a higher class than slaves. The doctors don’t replace them, but get their hands chopped off. This is because slaves are “treated like property” to a free human, and are known to not be as important as others who are higher along the chain of the social classes. Code 219. “If a physician makes a large incision in the slave of a freed man and kills him, he shall replace the slave with another slave.” According to Hammurabi’s Code. Another reason why I believe Hammurabi’s Code is unjust was how if a woman overcharged somebody for a drink they would immediately drown her for it. The reason I think this is unjust is because it covers two of my previous points in my thesis statement, unbalanced gender equality, and harsh punishments. Based on Hammurabi’s Code, unbalanced gender equality was normal back then with women being