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Author: CrypticMirror

Sep 7th 2013 at 12:05:06 PM

Well other races with much shorter lives are always going to be the exceptions, I wouldn't see any problem with examples though where the sentence is ten years but the life expectancy is only 7 years, its the same trope just a different biology. I wouldn't think there is enough of those to cause problems.

For the term, well anything under 100 is generally "you will be imprisoned for life" and glum nods all around the court. If a judge came down and said "you will go to jail for one hundred years" then you get gasps all around and everyone is thinking "that is more than life itself". The triple digits are a big narrative break IYSWIM?

For RealLife, I don't see how it can avoid commentary. Either the inherent gloating over the bad person who went to jail for more than life, or being shaded as the person who was sent to jail for beyond life by a [state/country of political disagreement] judge. Its going to be full of preachy preachiness or judgey judginess. I don't think either of those are opening the door on anything good. However, I can agree to disagree on that as long as it is closely watched. The Anderson and Zougal examples are already a bit wordier than they strictly have to be.