TacoLord9000
Smash Cadet
What is justice? We see the concept of justice appear everyday in our lives. However there seems to not be a clear consensus on what justice actually is in reality. Here are some examples:
Justice is the will of the stronger.
Justice is about being fair and minding one's own business.
Justice is upholding your values.
Justice is the inherent goodness in the universe or something put forth by God that we must follow in order to be just.
As you can see there are many problems with these definitions.
If justice is the will of the stronger then that implies the idea of justice is always changing. This means that something that before could have been considered unjust is now all of sudden just, because the person or people in power have now declared that it is just.
If justice is about being fair and minding one's own business then this creates the problem of defining what being fair and minding one's own business actually mean more specifically.
If justice is upholding your values then that means that there is no wrong form of justice since your values define what justice means.
If justice is the inherent goodness in the universe or something put forth by God then that implies that justice is objective. If justice is objective then how come we have not found it.
Justice is the will of the stronger.
Justice is about being fair and minding one's own business.
Justice is upholding your values.
Justice is the inherent goodness in the universe or something put forth by God that we must follow in order to be just.
As you can see there are many problems with these definitions.
If justice is the will of the stronger then that implies the idea of justice is always changing. This means that something that before could have been considered unjust is now all of sudden just, because the person or people in power have now declared that it is just.
If justice is about being fair and minding one's own business then this creates the problem of defining what being fair and minding one's own business actually mean more specifically.
If justice is upholding your values then that means that there is no wrong form of justice since your values define what justice means.
If justice is the inherent goodness in the universe or something put forth by God then that implies that justice is objective. If justice is objective then how come we have not found it.