Larry Niven solved this a long time ago. Almost everyone has SOMETHING of value, if nothing more than a purty mouth. Make him sell one of his livers until he raises enough Restitution.
--- In LibertarianEnterprise@yahoogroups.com, "Jay P Hailey" <jayphai...@...> wrote: > > > The issue is "restitution" vs "retribution/revenge". > > > Agreed. Perhaps I wasn't clear. > > When i said Libertopia doesn't do "Punishment" well, i was considering this > a positive aspect. > > Even if considered in the negative light, I think it would be a good > exchange to make for a society and a culture built around respecting the > individual. > > But indeed, that would make it very difficult to strike fear into the heart > of an evil doer.... > > Unless he could do math. > > If A Murdered B, And B's family got a judgement against him, they could > sell the debt to a collection agency. > > A could travel the world and hide in the deepest holes, but the kinds of > mooks and palookas who repo cars and think "Dawg the Bounty Hunter" is cool > would chase A to the ends of creation, hounding him to pay his debt > > Which is accruing interest. > > -*- > > Okay. So I am Acme Collections. Bubba and Squinty Rico just caught A and > shook him down for a few ounces of silver. > > A owes me a couple of pallets worth of gold. > > I had better figure how to put A to work in a very lucrative way. > > What does our gallery think of a long term labor contract? Functionally > this would wind up being a sort of light weight indentured servitude. But I > can't imagine any other way to take an ordinary Joe and recover what, in > todays money would wind up being something like a million and a half > dollars. That kind of bread is outside of most ppeople's expected life time > earnings. > > On another list I figured there might be a sort of "Extreme Stunts" game > show where desperate people are offered large piles of money to do stupidly > dangerous yet entertaining things. > > Like mixing Extreme Sports with Japanese Game shows. > > "Could an untrained person really land an airplane by being talked down by > the tower? If Mister A succeeds, we'll pay twenty percent of his > murder-debt. Is he that desperate? Is he that crazy? Stay Tuned for the > Zack Bass Show and Find out!" > > But I am having a hard time figuring out how else Mister a might pay down > his debt. > > Jay ~meow!~ >
