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If I am reading that right you are saying that justice is defined by laws - rather than the law being derived from justice.



That seems right to me. Where there is no law (be that legal, moral, spiritual, etc), there can be no injustice.


diminoten seems to be talking specifically about legislation, not law in a broader sense.




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