Law 218 says that if a surgeon operates on a free man with a bronze lancet and the man dies the surgeons hands shall be cut off (Doc E). This law is so unfair for so many reasons. One of these reasons is what if the man was going to die anyway the surgeon couldn’t do anything about that so why should he lose his hands for it? Hammurabi also wrote laws 196 and law 199. Together these laws state that if a man has knocked out the eye of a free man his eye shall be knocked out but if a man knocks out the eye of a slave he shall pay half his value (Doc E). Everyone is equal, slave or not slave. This law is also very unfair because a man can’t choose if he is born into a slave family or what color he is. If a man knows that he will only have to pay half a slaves value he could knock out a slaves eye whenever he wanted to, how was that fair to the
Law 218 says that if a surgeon operates on a free man with a bronze lancet and the man dies the surgeons hands shall be cut off (Doc E). This law is so unfair for so many reasons. One of these reasons is what if the man was going to die anyway the surgeon couldn’t do anything about that so why should he lose his hands for it? Hammurabi also wrote laws 196 and law 199. Together these laws state that if a man has knocked out the eye of a free man his eye shall be knocked out but if a man knocks out the eye of a slave he shall pay half his value (Doc E). Everyone is equal, slave or not slave. This law is also very unfair because a man can’t choose if he is born into a slave family or what color he is. If a man knows that he will only have to pay half a slaves value he could knock out a slaves eye whenever he wanted to, how was that fair to the