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'Eye for an Eye' By: Gina Dalfonzo|Published: May 4, 2012 10:34 AM
"My sense of justice has no gray areas. Because of that, I am drawn to Hamurabi and his code." Read more: Kelly Heuer, Write Where It Hurts |
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Be that as it may, the Code of Hamurabi in many places demanded collective punishment and therefore was flawed. It wasn't a bad start; for one thing often the main difficulty in a civilization was just having any law at all that is agreed on. But the code was still worthy of criticism.