What is Justice?

[houseofcantor]

Does this counteract Min's comment?

Note the duality of Letter/Spirit of Law. The spirit of the lawgiver seems to have always been morality; what is lacking from traditional knowledge of morality is the fact that it is individual. I keep thinking twelve thousand years is the age of civilization, which is a thing of writing, of spirit, of law.

All the people who ever lived, me and you, the book of life, we 2. Point object truths between which can only be a line, what is true. What is true can only be expressed in language, but the words are always changing, and we are always drawing more lines, trying to define, which can only confine.

So how about I catch you driving and yapping on the phone, I kill you.

There's a good, moral law. So a cop pulls over a girl in a Porche doing a buck twelve and blows her away, only to find out she was a doctor assisting an intern in surgery over the phone. Oops. Sorry, ma'am. Lemme stuff them brains back in yer head, you'll be right as rain...

And those are the days of our lives. Law, to statute, to a cornucopia of precedent leaving the cop on the beat to rely on profiling... to statute, to precedent... yikes! Jane! Stop this crazy thing!