It is unjust to...

...not appreciate

• 101 merging wave
• courtesy
• recognition/repayment(?)

... for a powerful person to attack someone who has no means of defense

• older sibling teasing younger
• prison guard brutally beating an inmate
• unnecessary harm, with no goal

...to lie

...to steal

• maybe someone is trying to sell someone to make a living
• it does that person harm

...to use different/double standards

...to sleep with thy neighbor's spouse

...to take more than one's fair share

...to affect someone's life in a negative way

...to be untrue to oneself

...blame others

• when they don't necessarily have anything to do with one's life
• lashing out at a customer when mad at one's boss

...to steal something from someone who worked hard for that thing

...to break a commitment

• but ok to do so to stay true to oneself

...work against the greater good

...to kill

• humans
• puppies
• unnecessarily (OK to kill a cow)

...to not do one's part

...to cause harm unnecessarily

...to torture/mutilate unnecessarily before killing someone

...to take away someone's voice

• to be irreverent

Continued at Socrates Workshop Tue 1a

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More abstract notes

• Power imbalance
• Karma
• Eye for an eye
• Justice v. Revenge? (What is revenge?)
• Scales of Justice (Justice is bllind)
• Not offer an explanation (justification) for an action.
• Something that bends the rules
• Greater good in the long run

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