Women gets to drip acid into a mans eyes by court rule

[Kasz216]

sapphi_snake said:

Kasz216 said:

For the record... Hammurabi's code wasn't so much an eye for an eye as...

Your life for an eye if you were of a lower class.

Some lashes for an eye if you were of a higher class

Some money for an eye if you aren't a slave and he was.

Your master's money for an eye if you arewertyu a slave and his slave wasn't.

An eye for an eye if you were even class.

The government shall repay you for anyhing you lost of "natural" misfortune if you swear to god you lost it due to natural misfortune... even if you didn't lose anything.

 As long as you rent something or someone from someone and claim to god that it broke or died of natural causes your in the clear.

The Babylonians believed in "God"?

Not the Christian god... but yeah, they believed in gods.  When they refer to "God" they mean Marduk the creator god.

Hamruabi's code was written "By the will of god" and generally talks a lot about the roll of nuns (Or rather ther version) and the importance of swearing to god.

Whole thing starts off

"When Anu the Sublime, King of the Anunaki, and Bel, the lord of Heaven and earth, who decreed the fate of the land, assigned to Marduk, the over-ruling son of Ea, God of righteousness, dominion over earthly man, and made him great among the Igigi, they called Babylon by his illustrious name, made it great on earth, and founded an everlasting kingdom in it, whose foundations are laid so solidly as those of heaven and earth; then Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should not harm the weak; so that I should rule over the black-headed people like Shamash, and enlighten the land, to further the well-being of mankind."

http://www.constitution.org/ime/hammurabi.htm