Imagine a person stealing a bike. When detected, the detector messages the violations forum/website about the bike theft. In a world without cops or courts, the people take swift action... by simply boycotting the accused. Suddenly, the bike thief is banned from all access to the property of others. The first thing he will notice is that the electricity cuts off. Then the water. Utilities are businesses who have no respect for thieves. The only thing working is his phone. In a panic, he jumps in his car and finds that the street in front of his driveway is blocked by a dump-truck. Seems that the streets company has also taken charge of its property. So what’s a guy to do? The bike thief of course wises up to his predicament, and wheels the bike out to the end of his driveway, where the agent for the victim happens to be waiting. The agent informs the bike thief that he owes double the value of the bike to its true owner plus the cost of the actions he accrued in the restitution, such as a day’s cost for the dump truck, the utility fees for shutting off and on again, the reward for the initial detector of the crime and the day’s salaries for all the people who were involved in the recovery of the property. Ouch. Fearing complete isolation, unable to buy food or water, the thief resigns to his fate and bankrupts himself to avoid starvation. And the nest day, his story dominates the internet, and parents everywhere use him as an example for their kids of bad behavior and its consequences. Continued...