A Query in justice and Ethics

             What does a government use to define what is just? Ethics... mankind has a basic, universal set of ethics. The golden rule of "do unto others as you would have done unto you." Whether everyone follows that or not is an entirely different matter. What does the governing body do when an individual breaks those ethics? This is where justice is implemented.
             Justice is the use of authority to uphold what is just. But just what is "just"? Aristotle says that justice is thought by men to be equality. Then he goes on to say that the justice that any man holds is limited and imperfect. Aristotle states this because men, in general, are all biased due to their own ethics and ideas, and therefore pass an inaccurate or erroneous judgment based on what they know at first glance. So in short, Aristotle is basically saying that any man made justice will still seem like injustice to some person or party.
             How then can there be true justice in any human society? Now the state, according to Aristotle, begins to take its role in justice. The state, as said by Aristotle, is the power behind justice. The state is the one who needs to enforce the laws that its members make. But aren't the members of the state also members of humanity? Then wouldn't their sense of justice be "limited and imperfect"? Yes and no.
             For example in today's American society we live in a democratic-republic. Aristotle said, "... some understand one part, and some another, but all of them together
             understand the whole" (World of Ideas 118). In our government the public is able to vote or elect people to represent them in the decisions our government makes, So, when those representatives or leaders make some unsatisfactory decisions, it was the publics own decision to put that leader in their current position.
             While I do not agree with a lot of the decisions that have been made in the past few ye...

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