> Legal punishment (ie prisons) are violence, or at least a substitute for violence It's meant to deter from actual violent crime, instituted by a democratical

> Legal punishment (ie prisons) are violence, or at least a substitute for violence It's meant to deter from actual violent crime, instituted by a democratically elected government, and applied by an unbiased jury or judge. If you're disputing these core aspects of the legal system, then even your problems have problems, and I advise fully resetting your mental model of the world.