Oh, for the good old days! Think it's funny to throw a dead deer down your neighbor's well? You get to carry water for them from the river. Think it's OK to steal a couple of sides of bacon? Guess what...that huge pile of wood needs splitting into little bitty stove wood.

Overpopulation, massive towns have created towering bureauocracies, even for small towns, which have taken away the immediacy of *appropropriate* retribution. How does a fine, or spending 3 years (or more likely, 3 months) in jail, make up for having trashed somebody's house or stolen their treasured valuables?

The perp. suffers and the victim suffers....where's the fairness in that?

Aside from the real problems addresssed here, I have enjoyed this thread very much!