western civ

today we did a worksheet about Hammurabi's code. We were given scenarios and had to decide what their punishment would be if we were the judge and then we saw what Hammurabi's punishments were and they were way out of proportions. Some things were put to death, if a boy hit his father his hands would be cut off, it's pretty insane. What's sad is a friend would be fine if you wrecked his boat and had to get your ear cut off. What kind of friend is that? I was crazy. But I thought it was crazy that people lived by these rules back then, personally, I shouldn't have it. From what it seems people didn't have freedom of speech, which makes it really different then today.