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Posted by pancho (Guest) - Saturday, January 17 2004, 14:42:05 (EST)
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"One of the most interesting objects here is not even an original but a plaster cast of the famous stone bearing Hammurabi's Code, made after the original in the Louvre Museum in Paris. This 7-foot-tall engraved stone slab, which contains a collection of the 282 legal verdicts (they weren`t verdicts) made by a Babylonian king during his 40-year reign nearly 4,000 years ago, is the earliest evidence of an organized, if harsh, justice system."

If we were discussing a Jew king there would be no mention at all of "harsh". Them Jews murdered their own children and still get credited with inventing our modern day morality...and is it any wonder...?

Anyway...Hammurabi`s Laws were a vast improvement. For one thing they allowed Justice to prevail. In the empire he created the various cities had their own laws and would punish often ignorant travellers from other parts of the realm. Justice has to be fair ànd to be fair it has to be uniform...or else it`s just a whim and a fancy. That was one big improvement...codified and evenly applied Law. Also Hammurabi had copies of the Law Code errected in the cities of the empire so all would know what to expect.

Besides that...although the punishments sound harsh to our modern ears...sort of like our systematized death penalty for poor and colored folk seems cruel and arbitrary to civilized countries...as it would have to Hammurabi...still, an "eye for an eye" was an improvement over a hand, foot, nose AND an eye...for one eye. It made "Equity" under the Law and Proportionality too new considerations for Hammurabi and his people realized that Law isn`t just the other end of Punishment...in order to be effective it should be respected and to be respected it should not offend the sensibilities of those who must live under it. Like the Patriot Act is an affront to any decent person.

How the hell can you STAND to be called Christian when you were of BetNahrain! Just don`t get it!!!

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needs repeating... panch - Saturday, January 17 2004, 13:02:16 (EST)
- it's about time! panch - 01/17 13:10
  - caveat emptor...or... pancho - 01/17 14:42

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