to have justice, you must know and exercise the Law.
you can see the problem right there.
Discussion
Justice can be served both outside and despite the law. A scammer that never gets arrested/tried but ends up universally blacklisted and dies a beggar for his misdeeds is an example of the latter. The American Revolution and the Kildozer are both examples of the former. It is only by the false assumption that the government holds SOLE legitimacy in the moral exercise of force that you can come to that conclusion. Nearly all genocides in HISTORY have been “legal”. But any time they failed… THAT was Justice.
Justice can be served both outside and despite the law. A scammer that never gets arrested/tried but ends up universally blacklisted and dies a beggar for his misdeeds is an example of the latter. The American Revolution and the Kildozer are both examples of the former. It is only by the false assumption that the government holds SOLE legitimacy in the moral exercise of force that you can come to that conclusion. Nearly all genocides in HISTORY have been “legal”. But any time they failed… THAT was Justice.
The existence of the principle of self-defense delineates and defines when non-legal force is moral and JUSTICE for it is justified. Killing a CEO for perceived inequities is murder. Taking out a monster that manufactured natural disasters to kill you is self-defense.
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