Rules are the only alternative to violence.
This is both incorrect and impossible of accomplishment. The law is not a tool that fits in any individual hand. The law is a faith. The law is a social compact, within which we agree to replace personal conflict with an equitable process for structured adjustment of those conflicts. The law is a benign social influence that is intended to replace swords, knives and guns in the hands of the civil populace - as well as replacing the need for same.