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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felix" data-source="post: 3658343" data-attributes="member: 3929">Another thought to follow up on the idea that the victims might not be satisfied with the criminal being Helmed and then released:The victims are satisfied by what they think has happened to the criminal. If they attend a public execution and see the [Major Image] criminal hanged, then they're going to be satisfied that justice has been served.So this Helm need not be public. It doesn't even need to be known outside of a few key people. Celebrim suggests that criminals may not view Helming as a deterrent. If we assume that's true, then this would mean that advertising Helming as a punishment wouldn't add value, but it doesn't mean that Helming wouldn't do the job it was otherwise meant to do.So how would you protect a Helmed criminal in the ways that the English government doesn't protect Alex in A Clockwork Orange? Make the world think he's dead? Baleful Polymorph (post Helming, so hopefully willingly) him into another person or another race? Ship him off to another town, city, or continent?How would the government hide its use of the Helm from parties that didn't like this sort of free-will tampering? Have an small group (Sector 7?) that knows about it?Or perhaps there really is only the one warden who wants his wards to turn to redemption, but is tired of the institutionalization of all the prisoners; so he brings a few key ringleaders in for questioning and they all mysteriously leave with new outlooks on life while retaining command of their gangs.[second glass of whisky... going to stop typing now <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />]</blockquote>

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