not in the law but in everyday life?
2007-02-22 04:35:25 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
justice does not necessarily involve punishment.
2007-02-22 04:38:35 · answer #1 · answered by MOM KNOWS EVERYTHING 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Justice is rather a quality, a virtue or a state, whereas punishment is an action. You may apply punishment to get justice, but you can't do justice to get a state of punishment.
If you wanted to know whether there are just punishments, well if two quite different actions could be correctly compared, then we could say that this punishment is rightful, whereas that one is not. Unfortunately, this is not the case, and the punished act is usually quite different from the punishing action, so the comparison will always be relative and interpretable. (that's why we need the law, sometimes even in everyday life - not that the laws be absolutely correctly formed, but that their use - at least in theory - removes the suspicion of subjectivity).
2007-02-22 05:06:01 · answer #2 · answered by jlb 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Justice: Right
Punishment: Revenge
2007-02-22 07:22:17 · answer #3 · answered by alexsport3000 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Justice is the judgement of right and wrong. Punishment is one of the ways justice can be carried out..... in other words, justice would precede punishment. Justice could also be carried out through rewards for right actions.
2007-02-22 04:46:03 · answer #4 · answered by small 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it seems funny to me how much the opposite of these words are so similar... injustice and....whats the word im looking for... u know, letting someone off the hook..... those two words go hand in hand,.....
but justice and punishment are very different.... u dont need punishment to have justice, and you dont need justice to have punishment... if your on a diet and u eat 5 doughnuts, u could punish yourself with running and extra mile, but this is not justice... u know what i mean?
2007-02-22 17:47:49 · answer #5 · answered by chopstik 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Justice is fairness, punishment is received because of ones actions, if you want to compare justice to punishment, you can also compare it to the concept of reward. Some actions deserve punishment, some reward, justice is that you receive what you really deserve. Make sense? Hope this is helpful.
2007-02-22 04:47:04 · answer #6 · answered by johnkmayer 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes, we can be punished for actions we did not do (this is not justice).
A child could be punished by a parent for spilling something on the floor or fighting with a sibling.
Justice is punishing the child properly, in the right manner, so that the punishment is neither harsh nor too lenient for the act carried out.
2007-02-22 04:44:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Punishment is not necessary. Justice is. We, as a society, must seek Justice without punishment.
2007-02-22 04:53:45 · answer #8 · answered by The Lamb of Vista 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Justice is the consideration of an action by us. Punishment is one of the results of justice just as is reward.
2007-02-22 04:49:16 · answer #9 · answered by merlins_new_apprentice 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Justice has to do with fair and equitable treatment. It is a moral principle that *may* involve meting out punishment or providing someone with rewards that are their due.
Punishment is about reducing the frequency of an undesirable behavior.
2007-02-22 07:11:12 · answer #10 · answered by ms_lain_iwakura 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Punishment not necessarily equivalent to justice. Punishment is much more effective as a deterant to prevent injustice to occur. But when injustice occurs, punishment just a lose-lose situation.
2007-02-22 05:05:59 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋