
New Worlds: Death Sentences
Our previous tour through physical punishments, back in Year Four, stopped short of a rather crucial one: execution. (Content warnings for basically every form of
Our previous tour through physical punishments, back in Year Four, stopped short of a rather crucial one: execution. (Content warnings for basically every form of
I was originally going to title this essay “We Have Ways of Making You Talk,” but I decided that was too flippant for the subject
One of the interesting things about police as an element of society is just how broad the concept is. In various times and places, their
Welcome to Year Seven (!) of the New Worlds Patreon! The collection for Year Six will be out next month, but in the meanwhile, if
Vegetarianism is an increasingly common topic of discussion these days, along with its stricter sibling, veganism (no use of animal products at all), and more
Animals serve far more than just set of a practical purposes in our world, as food sources, beasts of burden, and companions.
The news these days is full of stories about species taking over where they shouldn’t be.
This week’s essay kind of belongs back with the theft-related essays that started off Year Six, but for reasons of logistics it’s getting tacked into
Basically every society ever agrees: murder is bad. . . . but what counts as murder?
As the saying goes, my right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins. Turns out, that’s also the distinction between assault and battery.
When we turn our attention toward the more violent end of crime, things get pretty dark, pretty fast.
We’ve probably all heard the famous Arthur C. Clarke adage: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”