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Yep! Laws are literally only tools of oppression. They have never and will never protect you any time you need protecting. That is not what they're for.
They couldn't if they wanted to. Which they don't.
I'm not so sure about that. Murder being illegal is the only way to get justice when a family member is killed outside of retribution, and that opens a whole can of worms
Edit: Whether or not it's applied fairly is a different story and is likely the main issue, not that laws exist in general
Ask an indigenous canadian, a black southeast american, or a trans person or sex worker anywhere how illegal murder is. Or anyone who disappeared after dating a cop
Revenge is not justice. The state getting revenge 'for you' isn't even good revenge. Fuck that.
How the fuck is me grabbing a rifle and shooting a fucker I'm sure killed a loved one in the head any less justice than the state deciding to hire a bite mark analyst to frame the person they want to go down for it and making sure someone's punished so they look strong, then cooking them with a Looney toons gadget or dosing them with torture drugs til they die?
Neither of these things is justice, dead certain. Maybe neither of them should happen. But one of them would at least help repair some of the disempowerment and bring some dramatic shitty closure to my grief.
So even your worst case, the state is still more evil, fucked up, and useless for anything but the harm part.
That's how you get feuds.
Seriously, did you think that the people convinced they're right taking it into their own hands would stop with you? Haven't you seen all those parents and other relatives arguing that their kid/whatever could never have done it? Even after mountains of evidence, let alone after they're just gunned down? Some of them don't even care if they did it!
And once its a social expectation that return violence will come if you retaliate, the logical next step is to wipe out the offending family. Because that's the only way to take revenge and be safe. Shit gets bad fast.
One of the prime benefits of our "justice" system taking over the revenge business is limiting feuds.
Bitch if you just wanna rehash some warmed over uncle tom (the more problematic one) bullshit you're free but I got over this 'leviathan' crap by the time I hit puberty and have no patience for it.
If you got nothing better than 'but leviathan!' and can't read the clauses in what I wrote, or acknowledge any of the rest of what I said, you can go fuck yourself, 'cuz I'm having not 'gone be involved.