November 19th, 2005 @ 9:29 am

The Day the Grid Disappeared

The Escapist - The Day the Grid Disappeared

Murder, of course, is something most people would agree should be eliminated from the world, if only it were possible. But incarceration is also possible under the physics of our world. Most people wouldn’t want to change this, as it’s one of the threats we use to convince people not to do things like commit murder. It’s a tool of social engineering that makes our society a comfortable place to live. But if Joe Psychopath next door were to lock away your attractive neighbor down the street, it wouldn’t be called incarceration, it would be called kidnapping. If you could change the physics of our world, would you want to get rid of jails just so you could get rid of kidnappers?

The Escapist Magazine has some really interesting articles, nerdy stuff from a philosophical standpoint and such, its really quite interesting

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