1. One law said “if a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out”. -This means that whoever commits an injury should be punished in the same manner as that injury.The phrase an eye for an eye represents what many people view as a harsh sense of justice based on revenge.
2.To better administer his kingdom he issued a set of codes or laws to standardize rules and regulations and administer a universal sense of justice
3.From the code it is evident that the Babylonians did not believe all people were equal The code treated slaves,commoners, and nobles differently-meaning different consequences.
4.like the laws of today, hammurabis code lays out specific punishments for specific crimes, the modern legal code does not differentiate between social class like today’s legal system hammurabis code lays out the way that trials are conducted it spells out the requirement for witnesses and impartial judges.
5.Here hammurabi states that he wants to make justice visible in the land and destroy the wicked person and the evil doer..-The law themselves support this compassionate claim and protect widows, orphans and others form being harmed or exploited.
