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# Ontological Metacrime as Neojustice: Solving scarlet letters with penal extitutions and JBTs ([Jail-Bound Tokens](https://showtime.xyz/nft/polygon/0xE8aaf4E9D4b3B0D1676B92C3763EeDb9C999aEBa/0))

We seek to create an an extitutional system by making the first jail run by a DAO. That is, a jail that is opt in, or a jail that you can choose to be in by joining a DAO. 

As the concept of a jail and penal system is an Instition, then this concept of a DAO jail is an Extitution. 

An Institution is rule-based and comes down from the top. An Extititution comes up from the bottom and is more role based. 

The Ontological Metacrime is the crime of being a non-Extititution. It is the crime of being an Institution. 

A JailDAO is an institution that is not a prison, but is not a jail either. It is a new type of organization that is not a club, but is not a gang either. A JailDAO is a group of people who have decided to be bound by the rules of a DAO, and to enforce those rules in a way that is fair to all. 

There may be multiple JailDAOs with multiple tokens. 

In the course of operating an Extitution, any number of individuals will seek to enforce laws that come from existing ontologies of justice and hamper the goals of extitution participants. In order to aid and stabilize the flow of value, extitution participants must be able to defend themselves against these attacks. This document describes a system for doing so.

## The Problem
Authoritarian violence needs to be defended against. There are two types of attacks that can be made against extitution participants. The first is a direct attack on the extitution itself. This is analogous to a physical attack on a person. The second is a legal attack, where an extitution participant is brought to trial for breaking some law. This is analogous to a person being brought to trial for assault.

Democratizing violence needs to be done in a way that is both fair and effective. The problem is that the current system of justice is not fair, and it is not effective.

 The current system of justice is not fair because it is not democratic. The current system of justice is not effective because it is not decentralized. The current system of justice is not democratic because it is not transparent. The current system of justice is not decentralized because it is not secure. The current system of justice is not decentralized because it is not extensible. 

 ## What is an Ontological Metacrime?
An ontological metacrime is a crime that is committed against a participant of an extitution. The crime is committed in the context of an ontological conflict, and is a crime against the extitution itself. This is distinct from a metacrime, which is a crime committed in the context of a metacurrency.

## What is an Ontological Conflict?
An ontological conflict is a conflict that arises from a disagreement between extitution participants about the ontology of justice. The ontology of justice is the set of laws that govern the behavior of extitution participants. The ontology of justice is a subset of the ontology of reality.

## Neojustice
Neojustice is the class of laws that are created by extitution participants to defend themselves against ontological metacrime.  

## The System
A Neojustice system is a system of laws that is made by the people, for the people, and is made to be understood by the people. Neojustice systems are made possible by the use of ontologies to describe laws in a way that is easy for a computer to understand. In this way, laws can be made by the people, comprehended by computers, and computers can make people understand the laws. When a conflict arises between enforcers, it is resolved by the Neojustice system.


## Metacrime Identifier - Jail-Bound Token
We have been hearing about Soul-Bound tokens, DIDs and other instances of a so-called “scarlet letter” token as a mechanism by which to have more signal about person’s past conduct and a way to integrate reputation.

JailDAO members are attesting to meta-crimes that are issued by JBT can be combined with justice filters. A social debt token, that, in order to get rid of this identifier, certain circumstances to mut be met. 

Anyone can send you a jail bound token. The minute someone sends you a jail bound token, you’re already in MetaJail. Everyone will be in Multiple layers of jails. With so many, you will need a curative filter of the ones that matter to you. 

JailDAO could release an ontological identifier to users on Twitter, that could be given 
Not imposing in neojustice way. The only way to remove the scarlet letter from themselves would be to go to the metaJail for a duration of time to pay for the metacrimes. An organic way serve time.

There may be many methods of serving time for your crimes. Your punishment might be less if you choose to admit yourself earlier. 

## The Future
The future of Neojustice may be a world where democratized violence leads to a world of peace, where people can live in peace and harmony, where people can live in harmony with their neighbors, and where people can live in harmony with themselves (including when inside a jail).

To Join the JailDAO and access future iterations, please claim the free NFT of this paper draft on the Polygon network at 

## Draft Paper NFT https://showtime.xyz/nft/polygon/0xE8aaf4E9D4b3B0D1676B92C3763EeDb9C999aEBa/0?tabType=drops

Or scan this QR code:
![](https://i.imgur.com/9dyIU1A.png)


You will be one of 420 people to gain access to JailDAO and the first jail run by a DAO. An NFT-gated Gathertown event will follow. 

This paper was written by future JailDAO inmates in collaboration with GitHub Copilot (a version of OpenAI Codex) at the Extitition workshop at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. 

-JailDAO Extitutionalists

## MetaFine

JailDAO attestations for instances of MetaCrime are issued as MetaFines. MetaFines, being recorded on public blockchain ledgers, can be further attested to by other members, and the public. The public can curate MetaFines based on any schema of ontological justice which they choose to respect at any particular moment. MetaFines are a may to memetically effectuate NeoJustice without imposing the techniques of fascist archeo-justice violence.

# JBT - JailBound Tokens

A JailBound token is an attestation that someone should be in MetaJail. If someone sends you a JailBound token, or if you give one to yourself, then you are in MetaJail. The only way you can get rid of JailBound tokens is by a predefined programmatic set of actions - this is to ensure that the owner of a JailBound token can 'atone' for their MetaCrimes.

# NeoJustice Curation Filters

Because anyone can send a JailBound token or MetaFine to anyone else for any reason, curation filters which recognize some and pass over other attestations of MetaCrime. This allows for various ontological approaches to MetaCrime recognition without the need to decide on a single framework. We believe that certain 'NeoJustice Primitives' will emerge as common curation frameworks decided upon by aggregate conceptions of NeoJustice.

# References 
- [Decentralized Society: Finding Web3's Soul](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4105763)
- [A Plural Decentralized Identity Frontier: Abstraction v. Composability Tradeoffs in Web3]()