I could believe in the spanking thing happening pretty easily.
(I could believe it pretty easily. It wouldn't happen easily.) A society with a different approach to deterrence/punishment, a different view of the relative cruelty of prison vs. corporal punishment, etc. The others require violations of our concepts of physics, economics. Changing the punishment structure doesn't violate our ideas of human nature/psychology, etc.
A while back, Marvel Comics put out a "2099" group of books. The premise of the "Punisher 2099" series was t... (read more)
I could believe in the spanking thing happening pretty easily. (I could believe it pretty easily. It wouldn't happen easily.) A society with a different approach to deterrence/punishment, a different view of the relative cruelty of prison vs. corporal punishment, etc. The others require violations of our concepts of physics, economics. Changing the punishment structure doesn't violate our ideas of human nature/psychology, etc.
A while back, Marvel Comics put out a "2099" group of books. The premise of the "Punisher 2099" series was t... (read more)