An unexpected incident occurred in our city. Adonai’s brother and friends plead for justice.
Rights have been ignored and neglected for many years, but with social justice on the rise, people are finally getting a voice. No idea in Western civilization has been more consistently linked to ethics and morality than the idea of justice.
From The Republic, written by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, to A Theory of Justice, written by the late Harvard philosopher John Rawls, every major work on ethics has held that justice is part of the central core of morality.
Justice means giving each person what he or she deserves or, in more traditional terms, giving each person his or her due. Justice and fairness are closely related terms that are often today used interchangeably. There have also been more distinct understandings of the two terms.
While justice usually has been used concerning a standard of rightness, fairness often has been used about an ability to judge without reference to one’s feelings or interests; fairness has also been used to refer to the ability to make judgments that are not overly general but that are concrete and specific to a particular case. In any case, the notion of being treated as one deserves is crucial to both justice and fairness.
