My take was more on what justice means and whether we can question human inconsistency. Like whether a persons genius has something to do with the bad deeds or

My take was more on what justice means and whether we can question human inconsistency. Like whether a persons genius has something to do with the bad deeds or the worst part of themselves has something to do with their genius. There is an excellent essay by Heinrich Oppenhiemer called The Rationale of Punishment [0] It's quite the thought provoking read despite being over a century old. People then struggled with the question of justice - what is fair - just as we do today. The idea of fairness, to mete out punishment and dole out reward with equal measure, should be the foundation of justice. Yes, we should lock the molester in a dark cell for life for his crime, but justice demands that if he has done good works - those be recognised with the exactude of their contribution, not with spite. Some old Chinese texts on Mohism should also be an entertaining read - with good leaders both in government and military said to have mastered fairness in reward and punishment [1] So I'm hoping at the least you can see nothing is so black and white when it comes to the justice of reward and punishment. The idea of being just is seen as virtuous throughout the ages across all cultures from the Zulu to the Muari to the Aztecs to the Sycithians to ancient Egyptians to Han China - because it hard. [0](https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/intejethi.25.1.2989568 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/intejethi....) [1](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mohism https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mohism)