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Justice What Is Justice

It's tough to answer the question, "what justice means to me (exclusively or "in my own words)" because I've already been exposed to a source that has had a searing impact on how I define justice. To ignore it, or to pretend it didn't happen, would be the equivalent of trying to forget Shakespeare after one has just read Hamlet.

What I'm attempting to articulate is that I define justice much in the same way Harvard Professor Michael Sandal defined justice in an interview with Charlie Rose back in 2009. When asked the question, "what is justice?" Professor Sandal responded by invoking the great Aristotle, he said, "how a society should distribute honor and recognition is at the heart of justice."

Professor Sandal (via Aristotle) is precisely right. Justice is how a society figures out who deserves what. However, I would unpack that concept...

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The first is the mechanism that adjudicates who deserves what and the second component is the system that ensures whatever it is one is due (honor, recognition, etc.) he/she gets it.
Moreover, I would add that Justice involves not only rewarding individuals with honor and recognition, but also punishing those who've behaved badly and/or committed a crime.

So to recap, Justice is rendered after a community-generated apparatus determines the reward/punishment one is due and that reward/punishment is carried out by a community-generated system.

To make that definition a little less abstract; perhaps, it would be helpful to point to the justice system in the United States. The apparatus that adjudicates who deserves what, in the context of those facing criminal charges, is the U.S. court system…

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