Hammurabi Fair Laws
Do you think that if a surgeon's patient dies while being operated on then the surgeon's hands get cut off or if builder makes a house and it falls on the owner than the builder dies these are some of the fair laws of hammurabi's code. Hammurabi's code is very old it was created 4000 years ago and he made 282 laws while he was king and carved his laws on giant stones called steles. Hammurabi's code was fair to many people like the builders because if the house that they built was poorly made and the building collapses on its owner than the builder dies and it is also fair to surgeons because if the patient who is being operated on died because of the surgeon then the surgeon's hands get cut off so he can't cause any more harm. one of hammurabi's
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The second property law is if a robber is not caught the man who was robbed will declare what he has lost before god and the city and the mayor of where he lives will replace everything he has lost. I think hammurabi's code was just because if a man gets everything stolen I think he should get whatever was stolen back and I think that it's fair for the mayor is the person who has to pay for it because that means their is a robber in his community that has not been caught and it's the mayor's responsibility to catch the robbers in the community. The second reason why I think the laws are just is if a robber is caught he should die I think that is fair because if someone is robbing then they should be punished and if they get killed it's one less robber in the community. Baby thesis justice can be found in the personal injury law. The first law is if a man has knocked out the eye of a free man, his eye shall be knocked out. The second law is if he has knocked out the eye of a slave… he shall pay half his value. I think this is fair because if someone knocks out another person's eye than I think the person who knocked his eye out should suffer the same as the person he did it to. Indeed, there are laws in the code was unjust for example if a man borrows money from a crop and a flood kills his crop then the
The second property law is if a robber is not caught the man who was robbed will declare what he has lost before god and the city and the mayor of where he lives will replace everything he has lost. I think hammurabi's code was just because if a man gets everything stolen I think he should get whatever was stolen back and I think that it's fair for the mayor is the person who has to pay for it because that means their is a robber in his community that has not been caught and it's the mayor's responsibility to catch the robbers in the community. The second reason why I think the laws are just is if a robber is caught he should die I think that is fair because if someone is robbing then they should be punished and if they get killed it's one less robber in the community. Baby thesis justice can be found in the personal injury law. The first law is if a man has knocked out the eye of a free man, his eye shall be knocked out. The second law is if he has knocked out the eye of a slave… he shall pay half his value. I think this is fair because if someone knocks out another person's eye than I think the person who knocked his eye out should suffer the same as the person he did it to. Indeed, there are laws in the code was unjust for example if a man borrows money from a crop and a flood kills his crop then the