Post by Dizzy on Jun 16, 2006 3:35:37 GMT -5
The individual holders can appeal to the Lord Holder for justice. If a man commits a crime, the Lord Holder will most likely determine punishment to be testitiution and service to the wronged party. Imprisonment is the next severest penalty, and death can be decreed for heinous crimes such as murder or rape. (In Redstar Rising it gives examples of hanging, floggings, castoration, and leaving someone out for thread.)
The greatest penalty a man can suffer is to be made Holdless. During an Interval, deprival of shelter does not put a man at risk as it does during a Pass, but it cuts him off from the societal structure. For an honest man to be Holdless is a severe punishment. Even death is not as frightening to a man as being without shelter during a Pass.
Psychopathy is rare on Pern. Careful screening of the original colonists made sure that nay maladusted individuals received care, and individuals diagnosed as severely maladjusted, considered incurable, were refused space in the convoy. As it was to be a small, intelligently constructed society, those with psycholgical needs were attended to, so problems did not feed on themselves. the aurthors of the Charter wanted to create as perfect a colony as possible.
(Dragonlover's Guide To Pern. Second edition. Jody Lynn Nye w/ Anne MacCaffrey. Copyright 1989, 1997. Bill Fawcett and Accociates. Pg. 115,116)
((Later in the Master Harper of Pern, it states that the Charter was written by Idealists... showing that Pern didn't quite turn out the way the original colony was suppose to. Look at Fax.))
The greatest penalty a man can suffer is to be made Holdless. During an Interval, deprival of shelter does not put a man at risk as it does during a Pass, but it cuts him off from the societal structure. For an honest man to be Holdless is a severe punishment. Even death is not as frightening to a man as being without shelter during a Pass.
Psychopathy is rare on Pern. Careful screening of the original colonists made sure that nay maladusted individuals received care, and individuals diagnosed as severely maladjusted, considered incurable, were refused space in the convoy. As it was to be a small, intelligently constructed society, those with psycholgical needs were attended to, so problems did not feed on themselves. the aurthors of the Charter wanted to create as perfect a colony as possible.
(Dragonlover's Guide To Pern. Second edition. Jody Lynn Nye w/ Anne MacCaffrey. Copyright 1989, 1997. Bill Fawcett and Accociates. Pg. 115,116)
((Later in the Master Harper of Pern, it states that the Charter was written by Idealists... showing that Pern didn't quite turn out the way the original colony was suppose to. Look at Fax.))