What would a repaired world look like?

A repaired world fixes harms on the seam where they were written, between the people involved. Consistency alone falls short, since a prison is perfectly consistent: every guard's count agrees and the walls hold, because the people carrying the load cannot write to the shared record. In Elmira, Ontario, in 1974, Russ Kelly and a friend who had damaged twenty-two properties walked door to door, said what they had done, and paid restitution. A jail term would have left each of those entries as it found it. A repaired world also accepts local pain when it lowers future mismatch, through an accurate confrontation, a court verdict, a difficult confession, a refusal to amplify a popular falsehood. Its law addresses every recorded harm, the one law every restored observer could endorse with the whole record in view.