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rdean
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If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her. ...
50 pieces of silver? ... How much is it? ... But for sure he had to take care his whole life for this woman in his household. So in case she was 15 and she died with 65 years then this could be in 50 years about $500,000-600,000. What happens today - some thousand years later? Is this really better?
By the way: Christians never used such laws. Christians used the roman laws or in the middle ages laws like for example the lex baiuvariorum (6th-8th century). The worth of a person in this book had to do with the social position. But if a man hurted a woman he had to pay twice as much.
So why should we use such laws today?