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Naturally, there is no agreement of what exactly justice means. A pragmatic definition of justice that I found rather helpful for navigating the world: a socie
by YorkshireSeason 8y ago
Naturally, there is no agreement of what exactly justice means. A pragmatic definition of justice that I found rather helpful for navigating the world: a society is just if it gives me (my in-group, my tribe) somewhat more than the others.
That said, and generalising from the success of formalisation of other previously informal domains (e.g formalisation of fair elections lead to insights like Arrow's impossibility theorem), I expect that formalising concepts of justice will lead to major progress.
- pault 8y agoI think the ambiguity with justice comes from the ambiguity of what exactly a crime is. What is or isn't a crime is largely a product of the society that defines it.
- qwerty456127 8y agoI believe we should start with a simple principle of "whatever an individual can do that does not directly or environmentally affect people who hasn't given their content can never be considered a crime". As long as this is not put among fundamental axioms of justice I can hardly recognize how any other attempts to apply logic to this area can make much sense.