Timeline for How would criminals be punished in a world where everyone can teleport?
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| May 28, 2021 at 15:02 | comment | added | Eric G | How do you propose you put a death collar on someone who can teleport? Or drug them? I guess by counter teleport ambush? Your gonna spend a lot of energy tracking them down for a low success rate. | |
| May 28, 2021 at 14:37 | comment | added | Michael Richardson | @NotThatGuy The Longearth series had something similar. Iron could not make the jump, so sticking an iron based plug on the heart or an artery made a jump instantly fatal. | |
| May 27, 2021 at 17:57 | comment | added | NotThatGuy | @RutherRendommeleigh "any prisoner can be killed off by, well, anyone teleporting in and messing with the device" - pretty much like any other person can be killed off by anyone teleporting in and shooting them? If someone wants them dead, the collar probably isn't going to help or hurt much there. | |
| May 27, 2021 at 17:47 | comment | added | Ruther Rendommeleigh | In other words, any "anti-tamper" system designed to execute a person within milliseconds, no second chances, is bound to cause a lot of unintended casualties. Not to mention that any prisoner can be killed off by, well, anyone teleporting in and messing with the device. Or driving by with a jammer, potentially. A plain old shooting squad seems less draconic than this. | |
| May 27, 2021 at 17:38 | comment | added | Ruther Rendommeleigh | "In other news, state prison staff just confirmed that all 438 inmates have been explosively decapitated this morning due to a power spike in the aging building's electrical system. Whether the incident was caused by equipment failure, vandalism or another case of an intern porting too close to the cell blocks is currently unknown. Prison management said they expect the cleanup to take several weeks." | |
| May 27, 2021 at 17:28 | comment | added | Len | The effect of teleportation itself triggers the explosive device somehow. So even if the teleporter is very fast what arrives at the other side of the jump would still have caught enough of the explosion that it would have been turned to ground meat. Ewwww. | |
| May 27, 2021 at 16:31 | comment | added | LSerni | @Thorne you don't even need that. The collar could be powered through a leash. As soon as the power goes off or the leash is otherwise cut, the electromagnet that keeps the detonator circuit open deactivates, closing the circuit - and BOOM (for added horror, the collar could actually be a very strong, serrated spring, kept open by an electromagnet. Teleport under pain of decapitation. Or the collar could be in Bluetooth range of a transmitter inside the prison. No matter how undetectable the teleport is, the simple fact you're not inside kills you. | |
| May 27, 2021 at 13:11 | comment | added | mishan | Another thing is the ability of former inmates to teleport back to prisons and do mischief there. If the ability to teleport is "silent" and "undetectable" then it just means that any former inmate will go out, buy guns and stuff needed and break his pals out of prison. Detainment for imprisonment then becomes a real hassle. It's much easier to punish stuff corporally and financially with those terms. | |
| May 27, 2021 at 11:31 | comment | added | Thorne | Teleporting would require a build up of energy for the jump. Even if that took 1/100th of a second, an explosive collar could detect it and detonate to remove the offender's head before they could escape. | |
| May 27, 2021 at 11:25 | comment | added | NotThatGuy | If people could easily teleport with or without anything they're touching, an explosive collar / device could likely still be fitted / implanted in such a way that trying to teleport without it would result in death (e.g. it's attached to a major organ). | |
| May 27, 2021 at 3:17 | history | edited | Thorne | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 27, 2021 at 3:12 | history | answered | Thorne | CC BY-SA 4.0 |