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Write 1 paragraph (at least 150 words) answering the following question: Do you think the “eye for an eye” justice found in Hammurabi's code is fair? Use at least two of the examples provided from Hammurabi's Code to justify your response.
“If any one finds runaway male or female slaves in the open country and bring them to their masters, the master of the slaves shall pay him two shekels of silver.”
“If anyone is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death.”
“If a son of a paramour or a prostitute say to his adoptive father or mother: ‘You are not my father, or my mother,’ his tongue shall be cut off.”
“If a son strike his father, his hands shall be hewn off.”
If any one "point the finger" (slander) at a sister of a god or the wife of any one, and can not prove it, this man shall be taken before the judges and his brow shall be marked. (by cutting the skin, or perhaps hair.)”
“If any one strike the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public.”
“If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out.”
“If a man strike a free-born woman so that she lose her unborn child, he shall pay ten shekels for her loss.”
“If a barber, without the knowledge of his master, cut the sign of a slave on a slave not to be sold, the hands of this barber shall be cut off.”
“If a slave says to his master: ‘You are not my master,’ if they convict him his master shall cut off his ear.”

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