"this viewpoint I find very weird and contradictory" There are very few things at the intersection of society and justice (like law is) that are logically cons

"this viewpoint I find very weird and contradictory" There are very few things at the intersection of society and justice (like law is) that are logically consistent. This is by design, because people are not logically consistent in how they operate (provably so, in fact). Maybe in a few million years depending on how we evolve. But for now, I'm not sure why you would expect anything else. This is similar to the old saying of "in nature, the optimum is rarely at the extremes" The extremes tend to be the most logically consistent positions.