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[–] 1 point 2 years ago

Absolutely. I'm sure high infant mortality rates had a huge influence on the parts of Hammurabi's Code that got adapted into laws in the Bible. Until it could survive on its own, a fetus was basically the property of the would-be father (though so was the would-be mother, yuck), so they were obviously quite desensitized.

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