life and death

The theory of life and death can be a profitable one for LL as well as its residents. I realize that this philosophy will be less than palatable to most in SL, but ponder this for a moment.
If death were allowed, it could potentially create a few new industries. 1) LL could charge a nominal fee (5USD) to be ressurected. 2)There would be a market for graveyards ( thus plots for sale), and with graveyards comes the need for headstone makers (mosiliums as well). This will also create a need for funeral arrangements and services.
If there were witnesses to a griefing, they should be able to take pictures of the would-be assailant (and maybe the crime itself), or be able to get his/her (griefer) name out of their profile. They then can be reported to LL and be put on the police blotter with a name and potential picture attached.
If the assailant can not be apprehended immediately, then a bounty can be put on their head for their capture( this would create a industry for bounty hunters and individuals seeking to collect the bounty).
This would allow for penal institutions to be developed where people can be incarcerated for determined periods of time. Example: greifer steals someones passwords and uses them, two weeks in prison and $5USD a week for your trangressions.A Griefer kills someone and receives a 10 or 20 year term.(the time would be accelerated.A week equals a year for example). The person who commits murder also has to pay the $5 fee for the person that they killed.
These are people whom LL would normally suspend or cancel their membership(they have no value in SL). And if it is the intention of a small minority of people to be a part of the criminal element, thats their choice(and i am not mad at their choice), but they will do so knowing that there is a good chance that they may go to jail and pay fines.
"Prison Life" can be an experience of what prison life is really like from the safety of their homes( gangs, knife fights territorial disputes, selling goods in prison, potential sexual abuse etc..). This would require the employment of corrections officers, a parole board and parole officers.There would probably be people who will get "locked up" just for the unique experience.
Of course this would give some of these law schools that have joined SL something to do. Now there could prosecuting and defense attorney's, as well as retired judges who are willing to preside over cases on the dockett (This service can come with a charge attached).
I realize that the first major hurdle is that people who do not pay for their memberships can just start a new account if they get themselves into trouble, but that is a solvable problem. Prison and its time and charges will show who is commited to the SL lifestlye(and weed out the undesireables).
I love SL, but i am growing very tired of the same old options for entertainment or making a living (making clothes,building,shopping,sex, gambling, and clubbing the big 6). It is up to the residents to come up with new ways to generate capital, and i think these are several unique and entertaining ways for the residents as well as LL to generate an income. What do you think?

I think you need to keep in mind the date of the original post.
However someone could start a new spinoff community called

Second Death

As for a potential griefer coming to an island and killing everybody. I don't think so, that sounds like something that can happen in RL world before it happens in SL.

if a Av dies but doesnt want to fork over the 5 USD do they get to roam the Second Earth as a rotting zombie?

No, they become a Linden.

Hell, if i get killed at a party or in someone's bar while having a drink. I'm paying my 5 dollars, then i'm on the hunt for the shooter(if there are no witnesses or they did'nt kill him first).

And again, i will say that people would join SL to become griefers, just to go to jail because there has yet to be (to my knowledge) a game (rockstar or other) that has depicted prison life.

Hell, if i get killed at a party or in someone's bar while having a drink. I'm paying my 5 dollars, then i'm on the hunt for the shooter(if there are no witnesses or they did'nt kill him first). And if i can't find him any griefer will do (because this topic would receive national attention for SL, and there would be many more to kill).
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hmmm, not a bad idea colette. Maybe the non-payers can be exiled to a swampy island. Okay, maybe i came off a little strongly yesterday(sorry). Everyones strong opposition to the idea is precisely why it would probably work. Look, when you spend time developing your avatar, while spending money on your appearance, one may get psychologically attached(after all your avatar is really another dimension of you). Whats more, no one would want to see anything bad happen to their avatar selves, which would make the life and death here interesting to say the least. From what people have voiced in this forum, i think there would be some pretty elaborate funerals if some of you were killed.
As for a potential griefer coming to an island and killing everybody. I don't think so, that sounds like something that can happen in RL world before it happens in SL. In the RL world a great majority of people are not exercising their right to bear arms, but that does'nt seem to be a problem in old SL(gun sales are'nt exactly slumping). Hell, if i get killed at a party or in someone's bar while having a drink. I'm paying my 5 dollars, then i'm on the hunt for the shooter(if there are no witnesses or they did'nt kill him first). And if i can't find him any griefer will do (because this topic would receive national attention for SL, and there would be many more to kill).
And again, i will say that people would join SL to become griefers, just to go to jail because there has yet to be (to my knowledge) a game (rockstar or other) that has depicted prison life. Maybe people will not kill to get to prison, but they would break some law to get there. One may not think that any other person would be interested in death or prison, but look at the sucess of rockstar entertainment which glorifies nothing but the darker sides of life. Everyone flocks to these games because its something dangerous and illegal but they can do it from the comfort of their own homes(prison life would be no different, nor would dying, getting burried, going through a trial etc...). But none of this will ever happen so no one has anything to fear, or maybe it will and you do need to worry.MMMMHAHAHA(PINKY FINGER TO THE CORNER OF MY MOUTH). If it did would you leave, never to return? Ofcourse not you could'nt keep yourself away if you tried( and nor could i).

But only one of you actually said whether or not you would leave SL if this idea suddenly became a reality.

This is the "final solution" to the 'no payment info on file' problem

Final solution? well at least we now know who's in charge of the Second Life eugenics program.

Originally Posted by Jamil Jannings
But only one of you actually said whether or not you would leave SL if this idea suddenly became a reality.


If this were an operational feature with no option to be excluded, I would be out in a New York minute. Between this and the Corporatification (is that a word?)/Disneyfication that seems imminent, the more of RL that is coming in this world will make coming here counter productive.

The idea aside, i don't seek to turn SL into a greifers heaven, i just wanted to add the reality of finality.

I suppose I wouldnt leave, Id just help Vi pay her teir costs and wed only let in people we knew wouldnt be out to kill us.

Meenwhile the mainland would become a warzone and eventually just a ghost town.

yay. .

The more I think about it - the more this whole second death world idea sounds like it will only apeal to a percentage of mostly male gamers who are compensating for something.