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		mandmandam on June 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Carpenter's AirTags help uncover 'massive' case of... The Code of Hammurabi has more in it about protecting property than people, so... Also, you've conflated 'enforcement of the law' with 'the law protects property more than people'. Why? For most of history the people with the power to create and enforce laws were also the people with the most property. This isn't some big mystery.

WalterBright on June 1, 2024 [–]

And yet it did include protecting people. That old "eye for an eye", for example.

mandmandam on June 3, 2024 | [–]

You seem to have some trouble keeping track of goalposts; even when people are pointing right at them.

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