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I have heard there are some judges who punish shoplifters by making them wear signs that state they are thieves and having to walk up and down outside the store where they shoplifted for a period of days/weeks.

I have the perfect punishment for mooners:

Anyone caught mooning is subject to being put in a stockage-type contraption for an hour so that the public (keep the children away) can throw spoiled fruit and melting snow-cones at his/her rear! And should the mooner be imbibed in any way, he/she should be allowed time to sober up before the punishment proceeds.

...I have enjoyed and agree largely with your ideas. It seems to me that whether or not we wish to take a Schopenhaurian view that the World is our Idea (idealism), or a materialist view of the World as real and objectively "out there" preceding our birth and constraining on us, we MUST, it seems to me, acknowledge that as individuals we come to define that world on the basis of our socialization/enculturation. This has been axiomatic within sociology and anthroplogy for generations now. Some sociologists have even fashioned careers on the basis of their descriptions of "negotiated realities," the ways individuals collaborate in the ideational construction of the world (Symbolic Interactionism) and even how they compete in trying to impose or defend "definitions of the situation." So, it would seem to me that the world I was born into was largely fashioned materially (the cities, the inventions, etc.) and ideationally (cultural constructions of reality) by my predecessors, and taught to me (enculturation) by some of them (my significant others) and then, in turn, modified by me as I engaged my world philosophically/critically. But everything is ultimately both subjective and objective. A mirage is a subjective delusion, but it is an objective mirage.