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This also shows how women at that time were treated as "glorified property": > If that woman die, his daughter shall be killed. You damaged my property — your
by maratc 4y ago
This also shows how women at that time were treated as "glorified property":
> If that woman die, his daughter shall be killed.
You damaged my property — your property will be equally damaged. Justice!
Women wouldn't be treated as equal to men for another 3,500 years or so.
- alexvoda 4y agoLet us apreciate that we are not bound by the Code of Hammurabi, and strengthen our resolve to not move in that direction.
- alexvoda 4y agoAlso, does that mean that according to the Code of Hammurabi, a man without any daughter, can kill as many free women as he pleases without any consequence?
- p1mrx 4y ago283. If a man be an insufferable pedant, he shall be put to death.
- alexvoda 4y agoWell played
- IncRnd 4y agoI don't think too many people tried that "crazy amazing loophole that the government doesn't want you to know about but can make you rich". Looking at the rest of the code, it seems this sort of action is doomed by the adage, "an eye for an eye" - where a blind man might lost a hand instead of an eye.
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