The people who do this now will become old and helpless to, and it is our purpose to forget nothing and make sure their final years are thoroughly ruined.
You see, 35 years ago you signed this order on d'tention over hard drive 'ncryption?
That's unconst'tutional, you know. Here we've got the relevant law. So now we have to w'draw a 35 years worth of pay that you received aft'wards. That's the law that say that, too. We'll start by taking your house 'way.
Also we our records show you gave $100k to your daughter 15 years ago. I'm 'fraid we have to put a debt on her for that sum, with 'nterest. Here's the rel'vant court order.
How's that different than "revenge fantasy" fiction?
Slim chances of anything like that happening. Besides, there are such people in every generation. They just change what they target (after all it's about the control and the profit, not about particular victims. E.g. now they can afford to play it non-racist, since why should they care much about suppressing blacks in particular, when they can now fuck the whole population?).
I don't know about such a fiction but I guess that would be it.
If we are persistent and unforgetting, this might become a reality one day. We should find "such people" in every generation and make sure they don't have a chance to do such mistakes to pay for them later, but on the question of payment we should be adamant.
The trick here is to not be conflict-averse and not be a slave of own wallet but to care about justice even after the years.
How would you ever persuade people to respect principles underlying the law when you fail to punish people who are the law?
Modern justice is all like this:
We know this guy perpetrated, but it was some time ago and he's well connected and it's awkward for us so we're going to "hate his sin" but without any effect on his well-being. But you, dear listeners, please behave.
Ah, on unrelated note, we jailed a poor person for 10 years for a fraction of damage because it was politically convenient.
Indeed, recent years by Putin, Erdogan and Obama show that you can pass a lot of things as a law and everybody has to comply. To any kind of insane dung!
Unfortunately, not. Because in my culture, the commonplace handling of problems is not solving them but just piling up and then dying when they topple over.
