Timeline for How would criminals be punished in a world where everyone can teleport?
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| May 29, 2021 at 23:37 | comment | added | Loren Pechtel | @JohnDvorak The novels I was referring to if they attempt to pass through the portal the restraint pulls hard against them and they stay put. We only see what the characters see, they don't know how it works. (They can, however, open a portal and not pass through. The environment passes through open portals.) | |
| May 29, 2021 at 13:28 | comment | added | John Dvorak | @LorenPechtel and even if portal cuts are a thing, having the wrists on the other side of a wall will prevent their use... unless the prisoner wants to escape that bad (and then you put their neck through that hole second time around ... or, come to think of it, first time around | |
| May 28, 2021 at 1:05 | comment | added | Loren Pechtel | That's the solution used in the Jumper novels by Steven Gould (although it's the other way around--bad guys using it to restrain the teleports.) Their teleportation amounts to open a 4D hole and slide through it. Anything they're holding will come through--if they're tethered they have to exert enough force to snap the tether or they're not going through. | |
| May 27, 2021 at 17:23 | comment | added | toolforger | Or you could just chain them to the wall, that would make the entire building (and possibly the planet) part of the weight. | |
| May 27, 2021 at 10:58 | history | answered | Ruadhan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |