[maratc]

This also shows how women at that time were treated as "glorified property":

> If that woman die, his daughter shall be killed.

You damaged my property — your property will be equally damaged. Justice!

Women wouldn't be treated as equal to men for another 3,500 years or so.

[alexvoda]

Also, does that mean that according to the Code of Hammurabi, a man without any daughter, can kill as many free women as he pleases without any consequence?

[p1mrx]

  283. If a man be an insufferable pedant, he shall be put to death.

[alexvoda]

Well played

[IncRnd]

I don't think too many people tried that "crazy amazing loophole that the government doesn't want you to know about but can make you rich".

Looking at the rest of the code, it seems this sort of action is doomed by the adage, "an eye for an eye" - where a blind man might lost a hand instead of an eye.

[alexvoda]

Let us apreciate that we are not bound by the Code of Hammurabi, and strengthen our resolve to not move in that direction.