JUSTICE

What is justice? What is the essence of justice? Who is Justice? Are those two the same? Wow, those are great questions,....one at a time please. Okay, let's define justice: justice is the action or consequence that results from breaking some law, whether it be moral, ethical, or civil. You pay for breaking the law, and this consequence is often matched with the size of the offence. Like the penalty for murder is the death penalty. And then we have the god Justice, she is a woman who has a blindfold covering her eyes and in each hand she holds scales, for measuring actions. She is the literal (or mythological in this case) embodiment of the act of justice, she is the essence of justice itself. She and justice are similar, but not the exact same. The act of justice results in giving out punishment to someone who broke a law, and she is the literal embodiment of the essesnce of justice, like I said, similar, but not the same.

What do the gods descibe justice as? You see that's a sticky nasty problem, because each god has a different definition of justice, depending on the situation and whether that affects them or not. Those gods have flawed human emotions, so they are bound to change their mind whenever they please and wherever they please. The Furies claimed that Orestes death would be justice, but it wasn't, since Apollo told Orestes to kill, so in that situation Orestes committed no crime, since Apollo basically held him at arrow point. So depending on the situation, the definition of justice changes.

I commented on Brittany's What is Truth?