What is justice?
Justice is the quality of being just; righteousness,
equitableness, or moral rightness: to uphold the justice of a cause.
To different people the world justice can have different
meaning to them. In general justice mean righteousness, but the right thing to
one person can be the wrong thing to another.
For e.g. two cars is balance on a falling cliff. On the
left side sits five people, while on the right side sits one person. The cliff
is falling fast, if it was up to you which side would you pick to fall?
In this situation most people who think that it is just to scarifies
the right side, which only holds one person, instead of the left side which holds
five people.
But, certain people believe that it is unjust to scarify
that one person on the right. They would throw question like, what makes it
justice if we have to kill a person to save many others.
This proves that different people have different thought
process which help them come up with different conclusion differ than other
people.
You pose a good example for the concept of justice. For me, I have a basic understanding of justice but I'm still trying to define it. Although, I do relate to the nihilistic idea that there are no set morals for everyone. If everyone has a different set for what they believe is right, then what is actually right?
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