Most people—and especially most economists—not only are ignorant of what money actually is, but how and why it became part of our economy in the first place.
“Law and order” types often have problems understanding proportionality and the fact that arresting people is simply not the solution to every legal infraction.
It is the business of legal violence to defend persons and their property from violent attack, from molestation or appropriation of their property without their consent.
