Why Is The Hammurabi Law Unfair

Did you know that physical bullying increases in elementary school, peaks in middle school and declines in high school? In addition, over 3.2 million students are victims of bullying each year and 36.2% were physically bullied. Victims of bullying are also likely to be bullied again and 1 in 4 teachers see nothing wrong with bullying and will only intervene 4% of the time. To stop physical attacks like bullying, the Hammurabi law, “If a man has knocked out the eye of a patrician, his eye shall be knocked out.” would solve theft, bullying, and other crimes that involve physical assaults.

The Hammurabi law, “If a man has knocked out the eye of a patrician, his eye shall be knocked out.” would serve as a better law nowadays to stop bullying,
If it is an accident, he shall pay 10 shekels of silver.”, because the Hammurabi law is more fair. In the Hittite law, if you injured someone, you just have to pay some fine. I believe that this is unfair because you can blind someone and just pay 10 shekels of silver, but you can’t use 10 shekels of silver to heal a blind eye. So therefor, the punishment is not right. In homeroom, I did a survey on my friends to see whether they thought the Hammurabi law was fair or the Hittite law was fair. According to the students I interviewed, who are Daniel, Andy, Ritthick, Haowen, and Aaron, they think the Hammurabi law is more fair. I asked them why and Ritthick strongly pointed out “If the person who injured his eyes was a professional ping-pong player, loosing his eyesight could mean loosing his job. Even though the person who injured him will pay him fines, the fines won’t last a lifetime and soon he will have to find another job.” Daniel also pointed out that if he was the the person who lost an eye, he would feel better to know that the person who caused him to lost an eye now also lost an eye. So therefor,