if you blackmail someone you are very much going to be prosecutedin fifteen thirty adam scot of tushielaw was BEHEADED for repeatedly taking blackmail from tenants (back then this was known as violent extortion to avoid having your property destroyed)by the seventeenth century blackmail was legally defined as a form of theft and robbery even if the blackmailers were defending tenants from a larger threatthis crime is punishable for both tenants being extorted and for blackmailersblackmail is rendered impossible with structural verifiable erosion of trust of blackmailersin charles dickens bleak house mr tulkinghorn is murdered which caused his campaign if coercion to end this is why blackmail must be defeated nonviolently since eventually the blackmail system will keep effecting more and more people until worse and worse crimes happen this is why tenants of blackmailers who do not reasonably make efforts to build truths are also prosecuted for this crime
