How Is The Code Of Hammurabi Unfair

Hammurabi’s Code is just/unjust for 3 reasons: Family Law , Property Law , and Personal Injury Law.

Hammurabi’s code is believed to be the first form of written law. It consists of a set of 282 laws written by Hammurabi, the king of Babylon circa 1792 BCE, that established a written social contract amongst the people of Babylonia. It was written on a stone stele that stands more than eight feet tall and weighs over 4 tons. According to the stele, Hammurabi was instructed to create the code by shamash, the god of justice (doc A). However, it introduces conflicting ideas about justice that are arguable to this day. Are his rules unethical or his punishments too severe? Hammurabi’s code may be seen as unfair by today’s standards, but in solving matters that involve family, property, and injury issues of his time, Hammurabi’s code is just

Based on these five articles; Hammurabi’s Code had a mixture of just and unjust laws. Documents A, C, and D are viewed to be just, while Documents B and E can be ruled unjust.

First of all, I do not support Hammurabi’s code and I believe that it was unfair in multiple ways. One way that Hammurabi’s code was unjust, is that it was unfair to the victim. For example, law number 48 says, “If any one owe

Law 21 says that anyone who breaks into a house to steal, shall be put to death before the point of entry into that house and be buried there, walled up in the house. Now, that is just too much. Yes, punish the thief, and maybe even make the thief pay back whatever was stolen from the house. But to actually kill the thief and bury the thief in the walls of the house, is just wrong no matter how anyone looks at it. This is the most unjust law in my opinion. The law 5 is harsh because it actually takes a judge off of the bench and does not allow for his return to the bench if he is wrong. Law 5 states that if a judge passing a judgment and is later proven to be wrong, then that judge is publicly removed from the bench, has to pay twelve times the fine, and is to never sit or make another judgment. This law is unjust because it takes the judge’s job away for making a mistake that might not have been the judge’s

One of the reasons that Hammurabi’s Code was just is due to its property laws. The first law is law 21, and it states that if a man has broken through a wall in a house he is trying to rob, then he shall be put to death and pierced or hung in the hole that he has made. (Law 21, Doc D) You might say this is harsh punishment, but this is wrong. When a robber breaks into a house, he knows the risks of breaking a hole during a robbery. But most of all, this law strikes fear in people who are thinking of robbing. This is good because it teaches the people in Babylonia that robbing is not acceptable, and needs a punishment if the felony is committed. In another law, if a man has borrowed money to plant his fields from a creditor and a storm floods his field, then the farmer that borrowed the money does not have to pay back the borrowed money. (Law 48, Doc D) This just due to the

About 4,000 years ago a man named Hammurabi became the king of Babylon, a small city-state. He ruled around 1,000,000 people. We don’t know much about Hammurabi's life. The only things we do know about Hammurabi was that he had a military campaign and dealings with surrounding city-states. Hammurabi made 282 laws, called the code of laws. All 282 laws were carved on a large pillar-like stone called a stele. Was Hammurabis code just? Hammurabi's code was not just because it was not fair in Family law, Property law, and in Personal injury law. (BGE)

It’s not everyday that you see a robber being hung, a son’s limbs being cut off, or a set of human beings being drowned in water together. A small city-state that went by the name of Babylon was ruled by a king named Hammurabi around 4,000 years ago. During the 38th year that Hammurabi ruled, he decided to create a set of laws to control his new empire. What influenced his decision on making the 282 laws were the victories at Larsa and Mari. It lead him to think about peace, which soon evolved to be about harsh justice. The laws soon brought up a valuable question in their society. Hammurabi’s Code: Was It Just? If you look into the code you will soon find out that his code was in fact fair for the time. Hammurabi’s Code was just because of

Were these laws just? Was Hammurabi’s code just? Hammurabi’s code was not just because the laws didn’t protect all people equally, the punishments were too harsh, and Hammurabi’s laws may scare away people from his society. Looking at the evidence it states that punishments towards slaves are different than the punishments towards free men and women. Hammurabi’s code was unjust because the laws didn’t protect all people

Imagine being expected to have a sibling, then a man beats on your mother, and the unborn baby dies. Does the man get any jail time? No, he just has to pay 10 shekels of silver. Imagine ridiculous punishments and laws like that from Hammurabi’s code still being used today. Hammurabi’s Code was definitely unjust; the laws are unfair to the accused, the victim, and to the society as a whole.

Was Hammurabi’s code just or unjust? Well, I believe that his code is unjust because of his harsh family laws. One piece of evidence in his code is law 168 and law 195. Law 168 is unfair because something may have happened between the father and the son that the father is not comfortable sharing with the court, or there may not have been witnesses. Law 195 is also unfair because, “If a son has stuck his father, his hands shall be cut off.”

Throughout history, humanity has kept itself from barbarity and lawlessness by establishing rules and laws to bring order. The most primitive set of written laws historians have been able to discover is Hammurabi’s Code, which originated in 18th century BCE. Hammurabi, the author of said Code, was a king who ruled over the larger part of Mesopotamia for forty-two years. He claims these laws were handed to him by the gods and, as stated in Document B, meant to “let righteousness go forth in the land.” However, was Hammurabi’s Code really all that fair? In some areas, such as women’s rights, and property law, I’d say the law is more that fair. Nevertheless, other areas, such as the various punishments the law offered, were quite brutal.

Mesopotamia, “the Land between Rivers,” was one of the greatest and the oldest ancient civilizations of the world. This civilization flourished around 3000 B.C. on the piece of fertile land, now known as Iraq, between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Before 1792 B.C., the city-states of ancient Mesopotamia were not united and constantly clashed in turmoil and warfare. In 1792 B.C., King Hammurabi conquered and merged the neighboring city states of ancient Mesopotamia, creating a Babylonian empire and becoming the sixth king of its capitol city, Babylon. During his reign, Hammurabi established law and order and funded irrigation, defense, and religious projects. He personally took care of and governed the administration. In

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