Given the empire sending them there, I don't know if I'd refer to it as a "justice" system, and I don't know if I'd presume the people being sent are strongly selected for any sort of actual anti-social or violent tendency.
Given the empire sending them there, I don't know if I'd refer to it as a "justice" system, and I don't know if I'd presume the people being sent are strongly selected for any sort of actual anti-social or violent tendency.
It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
Verisimilitude -- n, the appearance or semblance of truth, likelihood, or probability.
The concern is not realism in speculative fiction, but rather the sense that a setting or story could be real, fostered by internal consistency and coherence.
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