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How to prevent theft in a society where everyone has hyperspace storage?
Hammerts can sense where are the objects that were in their hyperspace storage for a while.
In example they can sense the object for a day, so they can tell where approximately it is, they can tell ...
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How to prevent theft in a society where everyone has hyperspace storage?
Living animals and sapients cannot be stored in hyperspace
Living Glitter Bomb Animals
So hear me out. Since this is in the distant future people have genetically engineered sticker like creatures ...
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How to prevent theft in a society where everyone has hyperspace storage?
Three small changes:
All transactions with the hyperspatial storage are logged with place, time and the item deposited/retrieved.
The Hammert authorities can view (but not access) an individual ...
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How to prevent theft in a society where everyone has hyperspace storage?
Take a page from Bitcoin
Lots of people think that the "crypto" in "cryptocurrency" means that you can keep your assets hidden from everybody else. In such a way you can stash a ...
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How to prevent theft in a society where everyone has hyperspace storage?
The ability to move something into hyperspace is akin to fingerprints
Ignoring the value of gloves, when a human tries to take things, they leave fingerprints behind. At first law enforcement doesn't ...
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How to prevent theft in a society where everyone has hyperspace storage?
A possibility is a short-range hyperspace disrupter. The Hammerts must have quickly realized the problem and applied to such a solution.
Neither banish nor restore work within a short range of the ...
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How to prevent theft in a society where everyone has hyperspace storage?
Hammerts accused of theft in a recognizably-human society can be tortured until they summon all items from their personal space...then tortured a bit more to assure the friendly Police Torturer has ...
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How to prevent theft in a society where everyone has hyperspace storage?
The magical/Hyperspace system links with the Hammert's mind
If a Hammert tried to Banish something that they know isn't theirs, it won't allow them to.
However, you'll note I said 'Know' - if a ...
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How to prevent theft in a society where everyone has hyperspace storage?
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Camera security around precious items, in stores, etc. Audio recording that picks up on the word "Banish" specifically, and triggers alerts. Voice recognition would be ...
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How to prevent theft in a society where everyone has hyperspace storage?
You can make so that the Hammert have a strong code of honor which deeply despise theft, similarly to how samurai despised someone fleeing in battle or not cleaning their honor with their life after ...
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How would be society's reactions if scientistis created an hermaphrodite man capable of giving birth?
Crimes against nature
Since you include the bit about Judeo-Christian religion, I'll focus on that.
Like with anything else, the Christian reaction would be varied. The very liberal denominations ...
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