Thursday, April 5, 2007
@3:07 AM
Justice is the ideal, morally correct state of things and persons. For many, justice is overwhelmingly important: "Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.
Some may picture justice as a virtue — a property of people, and only derivatively of their actions and the institutions they create — or as a property of
actions or
institutions, and only derivatively of the people who bring them about. The source of justice may be thought to be harmony, divine command, natural law, or human creation, or it may be thought to be subordinate to a more central ethical standard. The demands of justice are pressing in two areas,
distribution and
retribution.
Distributive justice may require equality, giving people what they deserve, maximising benefit to the worst off, protecting whatever comes about in the right way, or maximising total welfare.
Retributive justice may require backward-looking retaliation, or forward-looking use of punishment for the sake of its consequences. Ideals of justice must be put into practice by institutions, which raise their own questions of legitimacy, procedure, codification and interpretation.
Some quotes:
"In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls."
"Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues."
"Let justice be done, though the heavens fall."
Justice. When i was young, i thought that there is only justice in the court but now i realised that EVERYONE can be justice. There can be justice anywhere as long as there are human.
HOW CAN WE PRACTICE IN IN OUT DAILY LIFE?
We must have the moral courage to speak up when something is wrong, must be impartial even though at times when odds are against me, must treat every equally regardless of statues, race or religion and must not do something that will benefit us but hurt others.
