EXACTLY. I'd love to replace prisons, generally, with internal exile. A few hundred (or thousand) square miles, with roads, towns, etc. Fences and minefields all around. Decently civilized inside! Let them have liquor stores and McDonalds and cars and body shops.https://twitter.com/ScholarAtArms/status/1002612310849019904 …
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I think there is only a very tiny band of crimes which cannot be handled by fines or flogging but don't justify execution. Mostly I think of disorders like pedophilia rather than crimes per se.
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It's funny how the "non civilized" punishments really are better than the "civilized" ones we come up with. Society, as we know it today, truly lacks the spine for what must be done. Robert E Howard was right to have Conan be so dismissive of civilization
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As soon as "civilization" means anything beyond low time-preference it has left the tracks.
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