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>Just because something is legal doesn't mean it's ethical. As long as a country is governed by rule of law, the only form of justice that should have any stan
by Dalewyn 3y ago
>Just because something is legal doesn't mean it's ethical.
As long as a country is governed by rule of law, the only form of justice that should have any standing is legal justice.
Ethical justice, more commonly known as social justice, has no place because that flavor of justice is going to vary wildly depending on the individual passing judgment.
None of this is to say legal justice is inherently "right", laws can absolutely be malformed or otherwise unsuitable for purpose. But so long as the laws say something is "right", that is legal justice.
- southerntofu 3y ago> As long as a country is governed by rule of law, the only form of justice that should have any standing is legal justice. I don't disagree, but by this standard i don't know any country that is governed by rule of law. France and USA are very famous for high-profile corruption and criminal cases in which politicians/cops/CEOs are either not found guilty (of proven crimes) or somehow never end up in jail despite being convicted (such as in the Balkany case). As the cynical saying goes, make one crime for a million dollars, end up in jail. Setup a corporation that does thousands of crimes for billions of dollars, get rich.