Hammurabi's Code: Just or not?

Law No. 48 - When people borrow money to raise their own fields, that storm will drown out their fields and take crops ...

The Hammurabi code is cruel because the law is not only unfair for all but also punishment too severe.

These laws are unfair for everyone. For example, laws on Free Men and Slaves No. 196 and 199. The slave did not receive the same treatment as a free man

Laws 215 and 218 indicate that the surgeon is not fully trusted when performing surgery using a bronze lancet. For surgeons punishment is also very cruel.

215 - If the surgeon uses Bronze Lancet in Freeman's body and rescues his life, he will get 10 Shekels silver

218 - If the surgeon uses a bronze lancet to cause serious injury and death a free person ... his hand is cut

Mesopotamia's Hammurabi bill is fair and reasonable, but these punishments are very retributive and brutal. The legal system applies to all citizens, but punishment does not apply to all citizens. Punish the existence of society, gender and government inequality. Despite unequal punishment, Hammurabi's "Codex" established the judicial system necessary for social progress.

Hammurabi Code can be traced back to the 2nd millennium BC (about 1772 BC). As Americans rule the Constitution today, Hammurabi Code is made up of 282 laws that became rulers of ancient Babylonians. There are thousands of years apart, but Hammurabi Code and American law actually have some similarities. Of course, they also differ in many ways. This article studies the ancient Hammurabi code, compares it with American law, and explains in which aspect it is similar, and in which aspect it is different.

Art and culture (p.98) considers Hammurabi Code as King Code of Humphibi. Therefore, it differs greatly from the statutes that exist in the structure of our legal and authoritative government and social order. Hammurabi code - a "legal code" or a rich choice of options? As Mesopotamia wrote: The powerful king (p. 26), the code consists of 282 rules. These rules are extended to the beginning and end of the preface, and to the end. "Code" actually affects every part of everyday

The Hammurabi code is a collection of legal and judicial decisions made by King Hammurabi and reflects how Babylonians understand social order and fraud. The norm of Hammurabi insists that the social order of Babylon is rooted in the universal and eternal principles of justice dominated by God. A person is divided into two gender and three classes. There are excellent people, civilians, and slaves, each of these categories can be divided into men and women. Gender and class members have different values. For example, the value of women's citizens is 30 shekels. In contrast, women's slave lives are only 20 silver shekels. The eyes of men's citizens are simply eye and are worth 60 silver shekels