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1_million_words2013-07-14 01:43 pm
agdhani.livejournal.com) wrote in 1_million_words2013-07-14 01:43 pm
crime and punishment...
So, I have a kingdom of particularly peaceful individuals who possess a varying array of mental 'abilities', a land where serious crime is almost non-existent (the most common crimes, which are not particularly common at all, would be things like cheating someone out of fair payment, failure to pay, avoidance of taxation etc). There is very little history of things like kidnapping, rape, beatings or murder...but these crimes HAVE happened now and then, so there would have to be punishments in place to deal with these things.
The situation at hand is that three individuals (non-connected) have been proven to have been involved in the death of another (a church leader). One is the religious leader in a neighboring kingdom...I'm thinking he will be cut off from the church and left for the queen in his kingdom to punish. One of the other two is also a religious figure, the son of the poisoned man, and the third is a pawn manipulated into trying to poison someone else...but the poison ends up in the wrong hands. The third is also not a citizen of the kingdom in which the poisoning takes place.
My dilemma is determining what sort of punishment they would administer...both to one of their own race, part of their church, killing his own father, and the other being a blacksmith of a different race, from a different kingdom. Would a death penalty be too harsh for an otherwise peaceful people? Something quick and relatively painless...or something meant to be a public lesson? Just looking for ideas to spark the creative process, so all suggestions are welcome.
The situation at hand is that three individuals (non-connected) have been proven to have been involved in the death of another (a church leader). One is the religious leader in a neighboring kingdom...I'm thinking he will be cut off from the church and left for the queen in his kingdom to punish. One of the other two is also a religious figure, the son of the poisoned man, and the third is a pawn manipulated into trying to poison someone else...but the poison ends up in the wrong hands. The third is also not a citizen of the kingdom in which the poisoning takes place.
My dilemma is determining what sort of punishment they would administer...both to one of their own race, part of their church, killing his own father, and the other being a blacksmith of a different race, from a different kingdom. Would a death penalty be too harsh for an otherwise peaceful people? Something quick and relatively painless...or something meant to be a public lesson? Just looking for ideas to spark the creative process, so all suggestions are welcome.
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If this is the case, a fitting punishment for the plotter could be enhancing their receptive empathy and forcing them to serve the people currently mourning the victim for a certain term. They get a unique punishment in experiencing the pain they have caused and it 'fixes' what people of that society would see as the most common cause of violent crime.
For the outsider, a more intense version of the same as provided by projecting empaths, plus return to his own land to face whatever form of punishment they use.
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