Is there a difference between justice and fairness? They're like a pair of identical twins. Separately they seem almost exactly the same, but if you look closely at them right next to each other, you will recognize a few distinctions.
To me, fairness is getting what you deserve, whether it's good or not. An example would be how everyone deserves to be treated with respect. That's fair. But it's also fair that if someone is completely disrespectful to you, they don't really deserve to be treated with respect anymore. That's my definition of fairness.
My way of explaining justice in my own words, is that justice is a form of fairness. It's when a person does something wrong and is given a fair punishment for it. Now there's a difference between justice and revenge. Revenge is often taken way to far. Justice is when a judge hears all the testimony of all the parties involved and makes a fair ruling based on that information and his or her knowledge of the law, then provides a fair punishment for the person who did something wrong. That's justice to me.
Case dismissed.
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