What Don is describing is the premise of a Heinlein story, "Coventry." Essentially, those who refused to live by society's rules were banished from society to a wasteland where they could form their own society. (Kinda like transport to Australia -- except look at Oz now!)

Not a bad concept; or at least not worse than our current system which clearly does NOT work -- if it did, crime would have essentially died out long ago. Surely we could come up with an empty chunk of Nevada for a trial run?

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