Timeline for How would criminals be punished in a world where everyone can teleport?
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| May 29, 2021 at 1:17 | comment | added | user85825 | I think this is a very cool idea problem is that If they remember being at one other place then they can go there. So you would have to wipe their mind completely | |
| May 27, 2021 at 17:22 | comment | added | toolforger | @Ruadhan a teleporting society would have very different social norms than ours. Privacy would be different, and if crime is rampant then harsher measures are required (and rationalized as "okay", just like e.g. mobbing was considered normal in WW2 armies and actually still tends to be considered part of the drill today). | |
| May 27, 2021 at 14:11 | comment | added | Ruadhan | @mishan True enough. Personally I consider the human mind sacrosanct. Forcibly taking memories or experiences from a person is on a level alarmingly close to murder in my eyes. The exception is if the drug only blocked access. If they recover their memories harmlessly after an extended sentence then fair enough. If they lose memories of places and experiences, then they will have lost something of who they are. It's a mutilation of the mind. On a related note, I am not a fan of the cavalier use of memory-modification in Harry Potter either. /rant | |
| May 27, 2021 at 13:30 | comment | added | Blutkoete | This would allow some interesting spins because you never know why you are in prison and if you really have done something wrong until you are (if ever) released and the drugs are slowly flushed out of your system. | |
| May 27, 2021 at 13:23 | comment | added | mishan | @Ruadhan not really, maybe from your point of view, but if you need to prevent people from teleporting back to prisons or teleporting out of them it becomes one of the only relatively easily accessible low-tech solutions. You must realize that the society will look absolutely different from ours, with massive repercussions for trespassing and probably shoot/kill on sight for trespassers on critical infrastructure. | |
| May 27, 2021 at 10:48 | comment | added | Ruadhan | Effective, but I would argue cruel and unusual too. | |
| May 27, 2021 at 4:31 | comment | added | StephenG - Help Ukraine | Elegant solution. | |
| May 27, 2021 at 3:33 | history | answered | L.Dutch♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |