Justice
Before we consider justice, let us consider the information we have gathered before that we require to define justice.
Person A is an arbitrary life we can use to consider the ramifications of our findings on chaos, choice, and honor. They have every universal right: bodily autonomy, self-determination, property contracts, etc.
If Person A has an environment they control and Person A is the only one there, no chaos has occurred. Thus no dishonor can have occurred.
If Person B enters this environment and dishonors Person A by causing chaos, dishonorable choices in Person B’s life mean Person B is now responsible for restoring Person A. If Person B does so, is this not clearly justice? If Person B fails to do so, is this not clearly injustice?
Thus, justice can be seen clearly as the reversal (or compensation) of this dishonor. Whether Person B litters, steals from Person A, lies to Person A, attacks Person A, these events all lead to dishonor, and if not compensated for, an indefinite injustice.
We can extend our example if we look into the futures of Persons A and B.
If Person B restores Person A immediately, is this not the maximal amount of restorable justice? And if Person B does not, is not the longer Person B waits to restore Person A, the less justice is restored?
We can then extend this to groups of people. If a person under the command of Group A requires a member to dishonor a person from Group B, Group A is thus obliged to restore Group B, or leave an indefinite injustice.
We can extend these groups to nations, as well.
在我们考虑正义之前,让我们先考虑一下我们之前收集的、定义正义所需的信息。
人物A是一个任意的生命,我们可以用它来思考我们对混乱、选择和荣誉的发现所带来的后果。他们拥有所有普遍权利:身体自主权、自决权、财产契约等等。
如果 A 拥有一个自己掌控的环境,并且只有 A 一人,那么就不会发生混乱。因此,也不会发生不荣誉的情况。
如果B进入这个环境,并通过制造混乱羞辱了A,那么B生活中不光彩的选择意味着B现在有责任去挽回A。如果B这样做,这难道不是明显的正义吗?如果B没有这样做,这难道不是明显的不公正吗?
因此,正义可以清晰地被看作是对这种不名誉的逆转(或补偿)。无论B乱扔垃圾、偷窃A的东西、对A撒谎、攻击A,这些事件都会导致不名誉,如果不进行补偿,就会带来无限的不公正。
如果我们考察一下A和B的未来,我们就可以扩展我们的例子。
如果B立即恢复A的名誉,这难道不是可恢复的正义的最大限度吗?如果B没有这样做,那么B等待恢复A的时间越长,恢复的正义是否就越少?
然后,我们可以将这个例子扩展到群体。如果A群体的下属要求其成员羞辱B群体的某人,那么A群体就有义务恢复B群体的名誉,否则将造成无限期的不公正。
我们也可以将这些群体扩展到国家。