[OWK]

So if society, via its duly-constituted public safety officials, initiates and projects force to restrain a child rapist, the society is committing a wrong?

Society would not be INITIATING FORCE.

They would be responding with defensive or punative force, against force INITIATED by the offender.

These words (like initiated for example) have meanings.

The language I am using in quite precise.

[betty boop]

Society would not be INITIATING FORCE

Of course it would be, OWK. Otherwise, there could be no force. "Force" is not a spontaneously occurring phenomenon in this context. Someone or something had to get it started -- which I thought was the meaning of the word, "to initiate."