Why Is Hammurabi's Laws Unfair

What if you were killed for trying to save a life or even being torture for a reason that made no sense to you? This happened to many people with Hammurabi’s laws. He was the king of an empire of Mesopotamia in 18 century B.C. Hammurabi created 282 laws for there to be justice, however his laws were very gruesome in punishment and also many were according to social class and gender. As time pasted people would learn what they were doing was wrong and they had to change something about themselves in result of not getting the punishment. The crimes rate would go down a bit but not much; however current generation considers for some laws to over doing themselves and are very curl when they can learn their mistakes in a short time in prison. Therefor Hammurabi’s laws were unfair to society, the accused and the victims. Hammurabi’s laws are unfair to society because the amounts of deaths and curl punishment people had to face when they break a law. In law 218,

In law 148 it states “If a man has married a wife and a disease has seized her, if he is determined to marry a second wife, he shall marry her. He shall not divorce the wife whom the disease has seized. She shall dwell in the house they have built together, and he shall maintain her long as she lives” (document C). This law is unfair to the victims because if the husband fines another wife to be with him. His current wife who is very sick, in bed, might get even worst or even get depression because of the feeling that her husband is with someone else and not her. As well with their children if that how their father is acting they will eventually be influence by that and their kids will start doing the same. Many would think that the male has to be taken care of by a women and he needs someone to clean and do the housework as well as needing someone to do intercourse