[RangerScience]

> That is the goal of the legal system as well.

Gonna strongly contest that. The legal system only gets involved once protections have failed. (well, the judicial part of it, at any rate)

[the_lego]

That still provides deterrence, and safeguards against future harm from the same perpetrator.

Regardless, the chess federation is not being asked to act on pre-crime either, so in that aspect they are no different than the legal and police systems.