Many times people use justice as a cause to set things right. The only issue is that the concept of ‘right’ varies based on morals, or culture, or even the government and the laws in place. Justifying actions is more complicated than Thucydides displayed. There are many opinions on what is just and unjust so when one person or one group of people sets out to do something just, it seems more like self-righteousness than justice. Still, in the majority of political decisions, justice is vital to consider and sometimes agreements must be made, though not solely because it is the just answer, with justice in mind. All of the situations written about by Thucydides were political in nature because politics, not individuals, lead to the Peloponnesian
Many times people use justice as a cause to set things right. The only issue is that the concept of ‘right’ varies based on morals, or culture, or even the government and the laws in place. Justifying actions is more complicated than Thucydides displayed. There are many opinions on what is just and unjust so when one person or one group of people sets out to do something just, it seems more like self-righteousness than justice. Still, in the majority of political decisions, justice is vital to consider and sometimes agreements must be made, though not solely because it is the just answer, with justice in mind. All of the situations written about by Thucydides were political in nature because politics, not individuals, lead to the Peloponnesian