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What is Justice?

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What is Justice?
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RE: What is Justice?
January 3, 2012 at 11:43 pm (This post was last modified: January 3, 2012 at 11:47 pm by Perhaps.)
(January 3, 2012 at 9:19 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Something can be legal without being "just."

So the definition of justice doesn't determine the 'justness' of a law? If it doesn't, then what does determine if something is 'just'?
(January 3, 2012 at 8:59 pm)houseofcantor Wrote: Justice is an identity and thus dual-state. One Justice is served, one Justice gets served; it may not be possible to reconcile the two. As a servant of Justice I am the law, which is love; how the law is expressed becomes Justice.

See the problem? Wink

I like this, especially:
Quote:how the law is expressed becomes justice

Does this counteract Min's comment?
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What is Justice?

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What is Justice? - by Perhaps - January 3, 2012 at 4:57 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by jason56 - January 3, 2012 at 7:54 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by reverendjeremiah - January 3, 2012 at 7:59 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by Perhaps - January 3, 2012 at 8:44 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by jason56 - January 3, 2012 at 8:54 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by houseofcantor - January 3, 2012 at 9:06 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by Anomalocaris - January 3, 2012 at 8:18 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by houseofcantor - January 3, 2012 at 8:59 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by jason56 - January 3, 2012 at 9:05 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by Minimalist - January 3, 2012 at 9:19 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by houseofcantor - January 3, 2012 at 9:33 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by Perhaps - January 3, 2012 at 11:43 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by houseofcantor - January 4, 2012 at 1:45 am
RE: What is Justice? - by Minimalist - January 4, 2012 at 12:03 am
RE: What is Justice? - by Perhaps - January 4, 2012 at 3:05 am
RE: What is Justice? - by houseofcantor - January 4, 2012 at 3:51 am
RE: What is Justice? - by reverendjeremiah - January 4, 2012 at 1:03 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by Perhaps - January 4, 2012 at 3:26 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by houseofcantor - January 4, 2012 at 4:04 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by Minimalist - January 4, 2012 at 1:14 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by reverendjeremiah - January 4, 2012 at 4:49 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by houseofcantor - January 4, 2012 at 5:44 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by reverendjeremiah - January 4, 2012 at 6:29 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by Perhaps - January 4, 2012 at 6:04 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by houseofcantor - January 4, 2012 at 6:53 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by reverendjeremiah - January 4, 2012 at 8:39 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by Perhaps - January 5, 2012 at 3:15 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by Minimalist - January 4, 2012 at 8:57 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by reverendjeremiah - January 4, 2012 at 8:58 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by houseofcantor - January 5, 2012 at 1:04 am
RE: What is Justice? - by Minimalist - January 5, 2012 at 3:32 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by Perhaps - January 5, 2012 at 3:44 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by Minimalist - January 5, 2012 at 3:48 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by reverendjeremiah - January 5, 2012 at 4:53 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by Perhaps - January 5, 2012 at 11:44 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by reverendjeremiah - January 6, 2012 at 2:11 am
RE: What is Justice? - by Perhaps - January 7, 2012 at 2:36 am
RE: What is Justice? - by reverendjeremiah - January 7, 2012 at 1:35 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by Welsh cake - January 7, 2012 at 4:18 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by amkerman - January 7, 2012 at 4:33 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by reverendjeremiah - January 7, 2012 at 8:15 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by Blam! - January 7, 2012 at 8:44 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by reverendjeremiah - January 7, 2012 at 10:27 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by Blam! - January 8, 2012 at 2:20 am
RE: What is Justice? - by houseofcantor - January 7, 2012 at 11:03 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by reverendjeremiah - January 8, 2012 at 12:05 am
RE: What is Justice? - by houseofcantor - January 8, 2012 at 9:35 pm
RE: What is Justice? - by KichigaiNeko - January 8, 2012 at 2:38 am

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