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'Eye for an Eye'


"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

Comments:

Hamurabi was a King. The Bible doesn't say "turn your subject's other cheeks for them even though part of the price you pay for living in a fancy palace is that peasants should be as undisturbed in their huts as you can arrange."

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.