What is the difference between Law and Justice?
             In my opinion there is a very distinct difference between justice and the law. I believe that they have a few similarities, but different parts to play in the legal system. Justice is like the ulimate goal that civilization has been aiming towards since the beginning of societies . The law is the tool we use, and have been using for hundreds of years, as our method to find justice. Through the evolution of the law, from Hammurabi and the Babylonian law to the present day law, our grasp on justice has changed. But have we really gotten closer to that ultimate "justice"? Or is it something that will always be just a little bit beyond our reach?
             Although there are some very obvious differences between law and justice, there are some similarities. They are both part of society, they encourage a certain morality in people and they both are there to bring some balance to a community. The Greek philosopher, Plato, believed that law should provide inner harmony and justice in the state, and that law and justice could be used as moral educators. I think that he cannot have been more right. Justice and law should always be in harmony with each other, they are there to work together towards that balanced society. I believe that this is the major similarity between the two, they are not similar in the sense of being the exact same thing, but they are similar because they have always existed together, and one couldn't exist without the other.
             The main difference between law and justice, is all in the process. For hundreds of years civilizations have been trying to reach this balanced thing that is "justice." Aristotle believed that there were two types of justice: general justice, which is the "whole notion of goodness and its exercise by humans; and particular justice, which "deals specifically with behaving fairly in both state- citizen and...