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• WalterBright 2y ago
  There was always enforcement of the law. Banditry, murder, etc., had to be dealt with. And sheriffs predated this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheriff_of_Nottingham_(position) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheriff_of_Nottingham_(positio... The Code of Hammurabi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi Wouldn't that be useless without a mechanism of enforcement?
  • mandmandam 2y ago
    The Code of Hammurabi has more in it about protecting property than people, so... Also, you've conflated 'enforcement of the law' with 'the law protects property more than people'. Why? For most of history the people with the power to create and enforce laws were also the people with the most property. This isn't some big mystery.
    • WalterBright 2y ago
      And yet it did include protecting people. That old "eye for an eye", for example.
      • mandmandam 2y ago
        You seem to have some trouble keeping track of goalposts; even when people are pointing right at them.