Code of Hammurabi.

Can anyone explain what this fucked up law means?

If a man gives his child to a nurse and the child dies in her hands, but the nurse, unbeknown to the father and mother, nurses another child, then they shall convict her of having nursed another child without the knowledge of the father and mother and her breasts shall be cut off.

WTF?

anyway here is wikis sample of the first known ancient laws. (long before the piece of shit bible came about anyway)

* If anyone ensnares another, putting a ban upon him, but he cannot prove it, then he that ensnared him shall be put to death.
* If anyone brings an accusation against a man, and the accused goes to the river and leaps into the river, if he sinks in the river his accuser shall take possession of his house. But if the river proves that the accused is not guilty, and he escapes unhurt, then he who had brought the accusation shall be put to death, while he who leaped into the river shall take possession of the house that had belonged to his accuser.
* If anyone finds runaway male or female slaves in the open country and brings them to their masters, the master of the slaves shall pay him two shekels of silver.
* If anyone brings an accusation of any crime before the elders, and does not prove what he has charged, he shall, if a capital offense is charged, be put to death.
* If a builder builds a house for someone, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built falls in and kills its owner, then the builder shall be put to death. (Another variant of this is, If the owner's son dies, then the builder's son shall be put to death.)
* If a son strikes his father, his hands shall be hewn off.
* If a man gives his child to a nurse and the child dies in her hands, but the nurse, unbeknown to the father and mother, nurses another child, then they shall convict her of having nursed another child without the knowledge of the father and mother and her breasts shall be cut off.
* If anyone steals the minor son of another, he will be put to death.
* If a man takes a woman as a wife, but has no intercourse with her, this woman is no wife to him.
* If a man strike a free-born woman so that she lose her unborn child, he shall pay ten shekels for her loss.
* If a man puts out the eye of a patrician, his eye shall be put out.
* If a man knocks the teeth out of another man, his own teeth will be knocked out.
* If anyone strikes the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public.
* If a freeborn man strikes the body of another freeborn man of equal rank, he shall pay one gold mina.
* If the slave of a freed man strikes the body of a freed man, his ear shall be cut off.
* If anyone commits a robbery and is caught, he shall be put to death.
* If anyone opens his ditches to water his crop, but is careless, and the water floods his neighbor's field, he shall pay his neighbor corn for his loss.
* If a judge tries a case, reaches a decision, and presents his judgment in writing; and later it is discovered that his decision was in error, and it was his own fault, he shall pay twelve times the fine set by him in the case and be removed from the judge's bench...


Two others I found that are lulz

If any one hire an ox, and God strike it that it die, the man who hired it shall swear by God and be considered guiltless.

and

If a barber, without the knowledge of his master, cut the sign of a slave on a slave not to be sold, the hands of this barber shall be cut off.

these laws are fucking harsh.

here is the whole thing

http://public.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/CODE.HTM
 
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If a man strike a free-born woman so that she lose her unborn child, he shall pay ten shekels for her loss.


that's a steal of a deal
 
Probably means that they suspect the mother of cross-contaminating the child with some disease.

They would consider it illegal and fraudulent for the wet nurse to nurse another (possibly diseased) child without the consent of the parents of the dead child in question.

OFF WITH HER TITS!
 
these laws are fucking harsh.
Another point I feel the need to make here is this:

As harsh as you think these laws may be...they are actually limited forms of punishment.

It is the tendency of mankind to take things to their extreme. The act of vengeance is no different. Example: "Kill my child & I will wipe your entire family from the face of the earth."

Ancient laws like "an eye for an eye; tooth for a tooth" actually limit the severity of punishment.
 
* If anyone opens his ditches to water his crop, but is careless, and the water floods his neighbor's field, he shall pay his neighbor corn for his loss.
Wait, what? I thought corn was native to the Americas.
 
Wait, what? I thought corn was native to the Americas.

that's a fantastic observation.

Im assuming they translated some obscure word for a grain into corn.

and im not dead you asshole... as i say in every thread i make I am in a quasi remission in that they wont use the word remission because I had already metastasized and the original lung cancer was small cell meaning my 5 year prognosis is pretty gloomy.

if you want more detail go into just about every other thread I make and have to explain thisl
 
that's a fantastic observation.

Im assuming they translated some obscure word for a grain into corn.

and im not dead you asshole... as i say in every thread i make I am in a quasi remission in that they wont use the word remission because I had already metastasized and the original lung cancer was small cell meaning my 5 year prognosis is pretty gloomy.

if you want more detail go into just about every other thread I make and have to explain thisl


Ah well, ............................


But for this moment thou lives.... :clap:
 
* If a man takes a woman as a wife, but has no intercourse with her, this woman is no wife to him.
* If a man strike a free-born woman so that she lose her unborn child, he shall pay ten shekels for her loss.

:lol:
 
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