of property to crimes of violence. The highest crime normally committed would be homicide, though on a different level something like treason might be considered worse because it is a betrayal of everyone in the nation at once.
The means of punishment is quite different as well, and one of the primary reasons for this is that American society is much more complex and is structured on hierarchies of authority rather than the cooperative community structure of the BaMbuti people. American society is not a cooperative community at all. It is rather a contentious, conflictual community where decisions are made in a spirit of the challenge of and contesting nature of wills. A central authority exists in the court system to decide issues between litigan
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