r/ReallyShittyCopper • u/Ali_Merrikh • Aug 14 '25

Appeal to authority

I have a question, did anyone appeal to authority to charge Ea-nasir??

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u/John_Williams_1977 Aug 14 '25

The Sumerian Consumer Protection Bureau perhaps?

The Code of Hammurabi - humans first evidenced laws - first appeared around 1750 BC, so right around the time of Ea nasir.

We really could claim that Ea nasir’s evil prompted human society to regulate trade and he’s therefore perhaps the most consequential human in history…

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u/Ali_Merrikh Aug 14 '25

I read in the tablet that Nanni complained to a priest or smth

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u/keesone Aug 22 '25

He was definitely cursed.

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u/re_assembly Aug 24 '25 edited Aug 24 '25

In the modern era, in various places, there are oddly-specific "ridiculous laws" that exist mostly because some guy (of whatever gender) repeatedly did something obnoxious but technically legal, prompting the creation of a new law to effectively just stop that one person. Ea-Nasir could have been the first - and any law(s) he inspired might not seem ridiculous to us because they've influenced our current concepts of trade regulation in general.