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by alexvoda 1455 days ago
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?
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  283. If a man be an insufferable pedant, he shall be put to death.
Well played
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.