If you do not give a high weight in acting justly, you’re a dangerous person.
The reverse is probably more true. If I give a high weight to acting justly I’ll grab the nearest Claymore, get some blue face paint and scream “You can take my life but you can not take my freedom!” If I don’t value justice I’ll suck up to the new power and grab my piece of the new pie. That’s a role someone was bound to fill. I’ll be irrelevant.
People who value justice highly are implicitly harder to intimidate. They’re harder to shame into compliance. They are less willing to subbordinate their Just wrath to gains in social standing. Sure, they don’t steal cookies, but they’re dangerous.
There’s an ambiguity here. You’re talking about valuing something like world justice, I was talking about valuing acting justly. In particular, I believe that if optimal deterrence is unjust, it is also unjust to seek it.
Why does this relate to the subject again? Well, my point is we should not change our sense of justice. It’s tautological.
The reverse is probably more true. If I give a high weight to acting justly I’ll grab the nearest Claymore, get some blue face paint and scream “You can take my life but you can not take my freedom!” If I don’t value justice I’ll suck up to the new power and grab my piece of the new pie. That’s a role someone was bound to fill. I’ll be irrelevant.
People who value justice highly are implicitly harder to intimidate. They’re harder to shame into compliance. They are less willing to subbordinate their Just wrath to gains in social standing. Sure, they don’t steal cookies, but they’re dangerous.
There’s an ambiguity here. You’re talking about valuing something like world justice, I was talking about valuing acting justly. In particular, I believe that if optimal deterrence is unjust, it is also unjust to seek it.
Why does this relate to the subject again? Well, my point is we should not change our sense of justice. It’s tautological.