Definition Essay: What Is Justice?

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What is Justice? It sounds like a simple question to answer, but what about in the world we live in today. Many people in our society have their own distinctive explanation of what justice is. When most people think of justice, they think behavior, treatment, fair play, and equity. In many eyes, justice is seeing the villain pays for what they have done usually by some kind of punishment such as prison or the death penalty.
Because justice is a hard word to define everyone has taking up there very onw viewpoint of it, and how it should be use. Many believe that justice is the concepts of moral correctness based on law, equity, ethics, rationality, religion, and fairness. First, we must understand that justice differs from every culture, as our culture are
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That being said I do not support the death penalty, I feel that theres no justices in taking a person’s life. If something bad happened in front of me, I will at least try to seek out help or least show i have some kind of morals. Once, there was a man who miss treated his dog, he would use him in dogs fights for money. I first confronted the man tell him what he was doing was wrong, and very disgusting. He just brush it off as if I said nothing to him at all, this made me mad so I confront him once again. Think he would see the error of his ways, was me trying to be fair i would later regert that dicsion.
I talk to my brother Labron about the situaion,he told me if I did not like it, I should steal the dog and, take it to a shelter. I reject him saying were the justices in that i 'll figure it out my self. I made up my mind that the best thing i could do was call the poicle with that i gave them the back story of the problem. after seeing the dog the poilce quickly took the dog to a vet, and place the man in jial. With the man behind bars i felt as if justics had been

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