12-27-2015, 06:10 AM
So punishment by society instead of the government? That's an interesting take.
That's a really heavy punishment, though, since Avali are pack-based instead of family-based. It breaks up the parents' packs, and would exclude the children from access to a creche and thereby prevent them from forming new packs. It's a lot like what you would find in animal packs (where children not of the alpha pair are usually killed, and the parents sometimes exiled), but are the Avali really that primitive?
Of course, mob justice definitely has the capacity to be more cruel than the sorts of things a centralized government is willing to do, so it's possible.
That's a really heavy punishment, though, since Avali are pack-based instead of family-based. It breaks up the parents' packs, and would exclude the children from access to a creche and thereby prevent them from forming new packs. It's a lot like what you would find in animal packs (where children not of the alpha pair are usually killed, and the parents sometimes exiled), but are the Avali really that primitive?
Of course, mob justice definitely has the capacity to be more cruel than the sorts of things a centralized government is willing to do, so it's possible.