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  • “If you want to respect the rule of law, you’ve got to start from the original lawgiver, which was Moses”

    Bollocks, more like.

    The earliest known laws are from The Code of Ur-Nammu from Mesopotamia written on tablets around  2100–2050 BCE. If Moses existed, he was probably chiselling away at his tables six or seven hundred years later.

    So I demand that these laws replace the 10 Commandments in schools. Who could forget such classics as:

    • If a prospective son-in-law enters the house of his prospective father-in-law, but his father-in-law later gives his daughter to another man, the father-in-law shall return to the rejected son-in-law twofold the amount of bridal presents he had brought.
    • If a man’s slave-woman, comparing herself to her mistress, speaks insolently to her, her mouth shall be scoured with 1 quart of salt.
    • If a man, in the course of a scuffle, smashed the limb of another man with a club, he shall pay one mina of silver.
    • If a man stealthily cultivates the field of another man and he raises a complaint, this is however to be rejected, and this man will lose his expenses.