Common ground ain't common

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Define justice.

G'head. Use simple words.

Any of these fit into your definition?

Most likely you either used the word "fair" or "equality" or incorporated that concept into your definition.

What is fair? What is equality?

In my community a City Council member sits on the Council and runs for office on the platform of "justice." If you ask him his definition, it will be something to effect of seeing that everyone is treated fairly.

If you watch his actions and his votes, you will see that his definition means unequal treatment and favoritism extended to people who surficially resemble him. You look at his voting record and you see he disregards the merits of situation and votes based on skin color and frequently against authority when he has a choice.

Side question: Will you believe his words or his actions?

Anyway, his definition of justice, as defined in how he acts, is a perverted form of justice to my thinking anyway. It is not perverted according to his thinking. Then again, maybe it is a perverted form of justice according to his thinking. This Council member was accused of being "intellectually bankrupt" by another Council member.

This man has a career in talk radio.

With the limited information I've given you, does your definition of "justice" match his?

Some people are diametrically opposed to the death penalty. Others believe it is not used enough.

Which is justice?

Now, is your definition of justice the same as my definition? Is your definition the same as someone in Australia? Austria? Moscow? Tehran?

If we can't agree on a definition of justice, which is a pretty basic concept, then how can we agree on more complicated things?