Grosseschnauzer:
"...And unless there is a statutory code of what can be brought as a civil claim, it won't work...
But there's a solution to that problems, and we don't need statutory law - and that's the beauty of the principle of the Common Law system. The actual court rulings produce the precedent which, in essence forms the basis of statute whether or not it is written or not. Great Britain and virtually every English speaking nation in the world operates on this legal principle (Common Law/Anglo Saxon Positive Law) which has developed over the past 1500+ years and continues to develop.
For instance, while there is in North Carolina, various statutes that raise certain civil issues like slander and libel to the position of a criminal offense, those particular cases which are not criminal and do not exist, per se, in a Civil Code, are nonetheless, despite no legal code pertaining to civil slander/libel, such conflicts can be and are adjudicated in Civil Courts provided that the offended party has suffered some kind of damage as a result.
As an example, there is nothing in the Statues of North Carolina that particularly lists anything concerning civil disputes (civil offenses being statutes in which the state/people are the victims, i.e.: disorderly conduct, etc.,,,). All that someone has to do is to prove that they have been damaged due to someone's actions which were accomplished with malice of forethought or negligence or under the Common Law Principles of Strict liability.
For instance, there is nothing illegal about shooting a dog in any legal codes anywhere. There is no statute that specifically prohibits that specific act. But, if you go onto someone else's property and shoot their dog you have inflicted pecuniary damages upon the owner of the dog despite there is no law about shooting a dog. Hence, the damages are real in terms of loss to the owner of the dog and said owner can recover.
But in TNP, we have no means, lacking a medium of economic exchange, or even an economy, damages can still be inflicted by one person upon another, and, like Criminal offenses in TNP, a penalty can be levied in an as effective way for Civil complaints as for Criminal complaints. All we do is to simply use the term 'damages'.
The big problem here is that the Criminal Code of TNP uses a lot of pseudo-legalize mixed metaphors in terms of legal 'definitions' that under most instances, the laws we have are almost self-defeating in terms of the logic in constructing those laws.
For example, one can literally get away with anything that falls short of a forum TOS violation when it comes to saying crap about other people because slander and libel (a civil dispute between two individuals) is not covered under the Criminal Codes. Nevertheless, a 'Civil' conflict would be afoot in such an instance and real damages to one person's or another's reputation has indeed occurred.
The question is, how do you get equity in a Civil matter between two people? Very easily.
If someone does something particularly excremental and nasty to someone else and is found liable for their transgression, it can be punished in like-wise fashion. Either a required 'forfeit' (such as reduced posting privileges on the forum or the wearing of a 'badge' depicting a jackass in the offender's signature, etc.,,,) imposed by the court that the liable party must adhere to, and if they don't it becomes a criminal offense (which essentially would be expressing a total disregard for the law and contempt for the Court) and punished as such.
Point being, we have a legal system in TNP which is all or nothing, criminal or nothing. And this results in penalties that are extreme rather than suitable for various transgressions and tend to drive people away. This is why we need an element of Common Law in civil conflicts.
