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 Characteristic of customary legal systems such as the [early Irish law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Irish_law), the [ancient Germanic law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Germanic_law#Principles) or the still practiced Somali [Xeer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeer) is the prevalence of compensation over punishment. That tends to happen when lawmaking is not detached from the real world, i.e. is subject to real costs and benefits instead of popularity in parliamentary elections. Laws that do more harm than good would go out of business.
 
-Few would pay 50,000€ a year out of their own pocket to keep an offender in prison, when he could be made to follow a compensation plan instead. Your tribe would likely pay the bill and collect it from you, as going to war over it would be too expensive. If you refuse to pay, your tribe might disown you. You would become an outlaw and might need to go into hiding, essentially isolating yourself at your own cost.
+Few would pay 50,000€ a year out of their own pocket to keep an offender in prison, when he could be made to follow a compensation plan instead. Your tribe would likely foot the bill and collect it from you, as going to war over it would be too expensive. If you refuse to pay, your tribe might disown you. You would become an outlaw and might need to go into hiding, essentially isolating yourself at your own cost.
 
 Victimless crimes would generally not exist. War on drugs would not happen without a law monopoly — physically attacking others because of their personal choices would be a fatal mistake without taxpayers’ money and the overwhelming force of a law monopoly to back it up.