RE: Idiot in distress

--- Brian Burger <yh728@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:

> ObGZGbit: Will the advent of FTL & off-Earth
> colonies revive
> transportation as a judicial punishment, or will
> colonial efforts be too
> expensive to waste on criminals? Lots of SF authors
> seem to think it'll
> make a comeback, anyway.

Too expensive, IMHO.  Especially for places hostile
enough to require artificial life support (airless
moons, for instance).

The Empire just shoots them, or if they cannot/should
not be shot, tonsures them and puts them in a
monastary on an asteroid.

John

		
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