[komali2]

Functionally, they are nearly identical.

The key word is the one you already said - "legal."

We "trust" the government and justice system, and that's why they are allowed (empowered) to charge us as needed. Sideline - we consider many of these charges to be "non-profit," i.e. the fee you pay the court isn't calculated to generate profit for somebody, it's calculated to reduce costs so that the process can be possible at all. Also, generally there are assistance programs for this sort of thing.

Fuck the system fuck the man, eventually I'm convinced we'll all go Walkaway, but right now government seems to be the only safe way to navigate the next couple decades.