Posted by Lou Pilder on February 23, 2003, at 12:04:34
In reply to Lou's response to Dinah's post (6) » Dinah, posted by Lou Pilder on February 23, 2003, at 11:42:20
Friends,
Justice is much more than making a body of rules and applying punishments for breaking them. If that is all there was to {justice}, then the slave codes of colonial America and West Indies could be looked at as [just].
One of the foundational componants of {justice} is to look at the laws in the particular body , or code, and ask if they are in any way, arbitrary, caprecious or descriminatory. Next, would be to examine if they are well-defined, which means not [overbroad] or [far-reaching]. Next, do the laws create favoritism. Next, are they applied equally. Next, is there due-processs to contest.
This is not all that needs to be questioned.
Lou
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