Timeline for What impact would a society that had no imprisonment have on the people in it?
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| Sep 2, 2016 at 13:00 | comment | added | Lumberjack | It was a long time ago, and I butchered the description, but I think it is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Thousand_Deaths_(Card_short_story) | |
| Sep 2, 2016 at 1:44 | comment | added | Jesse Cohoon | @Lumberjack can you get me the name of the story and the anthology it's in? | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 16:30 | comment | added | Lumberjack | I read an interesting sci-fi short story once about a guy who had committed a crime and was "executed" 7 times as punishment. With their high technology they confidently brought him back to life each time, and at the end they let him walk away. | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 16:23 | answer | added | DevilApple227 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 11:13 | answer | added | Brae | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 8:37 | comment | added | Mixxiphoid | Ancient Israel had no prisons because there law didn't require any. You may want to look into that. | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 8:29 | answer | added | MadHatter | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 7:22 | answer | added | Niels | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 0:52 | comment | added | Jesse Cohoon | @DavidStarkey maybe different laws of physics, or mutant special powers that wouldn't develop until they're a certain age. | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 22:41 | comment | added | David Starkey | @JesseCohoon that's what I was thinking. If these exist, though, then I can't imagine why some form of jail could not exist. | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 22:38 | answer | added | David Cullen | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 21:45 | comment | added | Jesse Cohoon | @DavidStarkey one could hardly count a crib or playpen as a jail or imprisonment of sorts, as such things protect children. A child is not going to understand a fine. Neither is it going to understand not to cross the street, fall down the stairs, or drown itself in the toilet. | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 17:07 | comment | added | David Starkey | Does this concept extend to children? Are there no cribs or playpens? | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 16:20 | answer | added | rm -rf slash | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 16:16 | comment | added | Mad Physicist | Iain Banks's culture has a rule like that, but it is a post-scarcity society. Worst that can happen is someone gets "slap-droned" for a while (followed around by a drone). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture#Laws | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 15:07 | comment | added | UIDAlexD | Not an answer, but I remember reading a short story where minor offenses were punished by being chemically paralyzed for a few days to a week. People were 'jailed' in their own beds - Completely awake and aware, but utterly catatonic and unable to interact with the outside world. | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 13:08 | comment | added | Skye | What if their role was serial killer? | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 12:49 | vote | accept | Jesse Cohoon | ||
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| Aug 31, 2016 at 12:31 | comment | added | Jesse Cohoon | @Eric There was an episode of Star Trek TNG where everyone was genetically perfect for whatever job they had, in an enclosed society, and even the removal of one person was disastrous! | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 11:41 | comment | added | Eric | Consider reading "Coventry" by Heinlein. They evict people to a place outside the society, but only when offenders refuse rehabilitation psychotherapy. If there's no outside, perhaps rehabilitative therapy is an option for you. Regarding the inability to incarcerate due to designated roles, what do you plan to do about sick days, child care, etc? The closest analogy I can think of there is a military vessel, but even they have a brig. | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 11:21 | answer | added | Stephan Kolassa | timeline score: 7 | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 9:02 | answer | added | Journeyman Geek | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 8:35 | answer | added | Joeblade | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 7:05 | answer | added | Mawg | timeline score: 18 | |
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| Aug 31, 2016 at 6:13 | comment | added | jimsug | @Brythan possibly. But I imagine the society would have some way of dealing with this, accidents, death from illness, etc, would all be things that would require a replacement for any given role. | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 6:12 | comment | added | Brythan | @jimsug The problem isn't the lack of an executioner. The problem is that there is no one to take over whatever role the criminal had. | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 6:09 | comment | added | jimsug | @ruakh would it? Suppose they had roles for "executor", just not "prisoner" or "guard"... | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 5:19 | answer | added | user25818 | timeline score: 10 | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 4:30 | comment | added | ruakh | I think this would be a much better question if you selected a specific reason and stuck with it, since those different causes would have different side-effects. (The "everyone had a designated role", for example, would also rule out capital punishment, whereas the others would not.) | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 2:38 | answer | added | jimsug | timeline score: 23 | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 2:35 | answer | added | SRM | timeline score: 9 | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 2:07 | answer | added | HDE 226868♦ | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 2:07 | answer | added | Ranger | timeline score: 15 | |
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