the alternative is a society where you accept criminality without punishment, courts without judgements, murder without penalty and theft without compensation.
As an example.
A 30 year old breaks into your house, rapes your wife and 12 year old daughter and kills your only son.
He also then burns down your house.
later he jumps on a horse and chases you down and shoots you in the back.
He is not prosecuted, you are hanged when you attempt to take your own retribution. No compoensation is paid for 200 years to your family.
When someone finally decides that you are not only not the guilty party but the aggrieved, someone says sorry and disputes that you ever should have compensation.
