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No, justice has not ceased to exist. How could it? It is possible for men to abandon their sight of it, and then it is justice that destroys them. But it is not possible for justice to go out of existence, because one is an attribute of the other, because justice is the act of acknowledging that which exists...
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged - Judge Narragansett speaking to Dagny

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I put this in because of so much conversing and arguing over the nature of and existing of justice with regards to government - or lack of...  that it is a case of understanding the nature of what the virtue of justice is, before being able to understand that it involves much more than laws or customs....



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Sunday, October 14, 2007 - 2:53amSanction this postReply
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... justice is the act of acknowledging that which exists...
... and of treating it accordingly.
 
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