Hammurabi's DBQ Hammurabi's code has been around for a long time, but a question has been doubted many times? So here's my thoughts, Was hammurabi's code fair to EVERYONE? i say Yes, here's why. Well they decided it by your situation, they would take what you took from another person and they also brought those who needed to be brought to justice brought to justice! What's your opinion? But here's mine!

First off, it depended on your situation. For an example we could use this law= If the son of paramour or prostitute says to their adoptive father or mother “you aren’t my real father and or mother his tongue shall be cut off. Here it's a situation based law there are also many other laws that are like this also. But let’s talk about this one in specific. It states that if you are the son of paramour or a prostitute, this basically is stating your situation it doesn't say if you're just plain old adopted it means if you are the son of a paramour or a prostitute and then you say that they aren't your real mother or father TO your adoptive mother or father then well you'll get your tongue cut out. But see the situation delima going on here? …show more content…
Well if you haven't it's a pretty good explanation of what i'm trying to get in this paragraph. If you like legit poked someone's’ eye out and you were living in these times then they would literally be like ok so you poked so and so’s eye out now we have to poke out yours ok and then you would be left without one eye.. That's the point i'm trying to get if you chopped someone's hand off yours would get chopped off too. It didn't matter what you may have done to the person but what you did to them it would come right back at