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What societies have ever had legal or accepted blackmail?

by clone of saturn 8mo17th Mar 20191 min read23 comments

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Robin Hanson's post History of Blackmail only mentions cases where blackmail was illicit or illegal. Have there ever been any societies, large or small, where blackmail was widely accepted?

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