Antisocial Behavior & Conflict Resolution
- How would your utopia deal with those who harm others? Force them to undergo psychiatric treatment? Shun them? Banish them? Imprison them? Kill them?
- Would your utopia have a formalized system for dealing with criminal behavior? If not, would it be dealt with by the community as a whole? Would punishment be meted out by victim(s), their families, and friends?
- How would your utopia deal with self-destructive behaviors?
- How would it deal with conflicts between individuals?
- Would there be a means of private mediation?
- Would there be a means of public mediation?
- Would your utopia ban guns?
- Would your utopia ban other types of weapons? If so, what types?
Power & Politics
- Would your utopia be based on any particular political theory? If so, what? And why?
- What form of social and political organization would your utopia have? Would it be based on political authority, with some giving orders and others obeying them in a vertical, hierarchical structure, as at present? Or would it be based on voluntary cooperation in a horizontal, noncoercive structure?
- What would your decision-making process(es) be?
- Would you have a constitution, other written agreement(s), or verbal agreements?
- How would officials or coordinators be selected?
- How would you deal with abuse of authority by officials or coordinators?
Military/War
- Would your utopia abolish war, or if a small society would one of its goals be the abolition of war?
- Until war is abolished, would your utopia have some kind of self-defense force? If so, would it be a conventional army with a rank system and chain of command? If not as a conventional army, how would your self-defense force be organized? As a militia? If so, who would be its members? How would weapons be controlled? And by whom?
- Would any types of weapons be banned? If so, which ones? Why?
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