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BatmansMom • yesterday at 5:41 PM • 5 replies • view on HN

Is hammurabi's code moral? I don't know if I think that someone who takes out a person's eye deserves to have their own eye taken out also


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scj • yesterday at 8:44 PM

Hammurabi Building Law 230: If a house falls due to improper construction, and kills the son of the owner, the son of that builder shall be put to death.

Given my dad designed and built homes, I'm very much against this rule.

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card_zero • yesterday at 6:11 PM

I seem to remember that a lot of it is about how much to pay when you kill someone, and the relative prices of slaves and women. Or am I thinking of Ur-Nammu.

js8 • yesterday at 6:49 PM

I agree, I believe I would disagree with most of the Hammurabi's code, and I also happen to disagree with the majority of the ten commandments. (I am an atheist leftist humanist, cosmopolitan liberal socialist.)

ctoth • yesterday at 7:00 PM

Shit, I'm so sorry to the surgeons who saved me from eye cancer!