Apologies for how dumb/weird/vague this question may sound but I'm having a lot of trouble narrowing it down.

What I'm referring to is, how likely/possible would it be for someone to make it through life without seeing human on human violence on the "institutional" scale; so primarily things like wars, raids, as well as public executions or physical punishments. Im not necessarily asking for periods of total peace, more just like, even if there WERE wars and executions going on, could an individual reasonably avoid participating or seeing these things if they wanted to? I'm also not counting things like domestic violence within the home, or like medical practices that are violent and gruesome but arguably consensual.

I did want to leave the time and place somewhat open because I'm interested in this in like, anywhere in the world in the past really.