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Laurelai  ·  4595 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are the benefits of government that cannot be replicated?
Arbitration would come about as needed, say someone has been stealing from people in town and they believe person X is responsible. They would have a town meeting and agree to start the arbitration process to determine if person X is the one actually behind it or not, it would work in a similar fashion as a jury trial yes. But the "judge" would be a temporary position and only there to make sure that the agreed upon arbitration rules are followed and to keep the proceedings civilized. Guilt or innocence would be determined by the jury as well as any restitution. The accused would be able to opt out of the proceedings in most cases by accepting exile from the community (with obvious exceptions for things like rape and child molestation, serial murder ect..).