At some moment, someone will decide that they want to leave the island. Could be a result of them feeling unhappy on the island. Could be a result of something that happens in the outside world.
Are you worried more about a few people wanting to leave and being imprisoned instead? Or a large number of people wanting to leave and the whole project collapsing?
If you have no secrets in the island, but you need to keep them from the rest of the world, then you need to imprison everyone who tries to leave, possibly for life. Consider the following situations:
someone becomes religious, and decides that the project opposes the will of God
someone finds out that their parents (not in the project) are sick, and wants to see them again
children born on the island who want to leave and explore the world
If you put all these categories in prison, that would be seen as quite evil, at least from outside.
Then again, horrible things happen e.g. in Saudi Arabia, and we mostly seem to be okay with that.
But I guess the problem is that if you are unimportant, then anyone can start a crusade against you, probably quite successfully if you are seen as obviously evil. And if you are important, then the governments will obviously want to send spies to the island.
People are allowed to stop working and continue at same basic standard of living. They can try finding other people on the island who can help them, for example there will be atleast some psychologists who may want to help them.
The island is a project with multi-decadal time horizon for its goals, so ensuring everyone is doing okay is priority for everyone. If lots of people are unhappy it affects everyone else.
If someone is being highly disruptive to the atmosphere there could be a prison that provides same standard of living but places some restrictions on who they can meet and for what purpose.
Here too, the leaders don’t get to keep secret information. Everyone on the island is made aware of the condition of the “prisoners” and what help is being provided to them. And they can try to push for different conditions in a more democratic manner.
At some moment, someone will decide that they want to leave the island. Could be a result of them feeling unhappy on the island. Could be a result of something that happens in the outside world.
Are you worried more about a few people wanting to leave and being imprisoned instead? Or a large number of people wanting to leave and the whole project collapsing?
If you have no secrets in the island, but you need to keep them from the rest of the world, then you need to imprison everyone who tries to leave, possibly for life. Consider the following situations:
someone becomes religious, and decides that the project opposes the will of God
someone finds out that their parents (not in the project) are sick, and wants to see them again
children born on the island who want to leave and explore the world
If you put all these categories in prison, that would be seen as quite evil, at least from outside.
Then again, horrible things happen e.g. in Saudi Arabia, and we mostly seem to be okay with that.
But I guess the problem is that if you are unimportant, then anyone can start a crusade against you, probably quite successfully if you are seen as obviously evil. And if you are important, then the governments will obviously want to send spies to the island.
I feel how to handle this might be:
People are allowed to stop working and continue at same basic standard of living. They can try finding other people on the island who can help them, for example there will be atleast some psychologists who may want to help them.
The island is a project with multi-decadal time horizon for its goals, so ensuring everyone is doing okay is priority for everyone. If lots of people are unhappy it affects everyone else.
If someone is being highly disruptive to the atmosphere there could be a prison that provides same standard of living but places some restrictions on who they can meet and for what purpose.
Here too, the leaders don’t get to keep secret information. Everyone on the island is made aware of the condition of the “prisoners” and what help is being provided to them. And they can try to push for different conditions in a more democratic manner.