Title: Justice and Fairness | SkillsYouNeed
Headings: Justice and Fairness
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Justice and Fairness
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The Reverse of Justice
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Ensuring Justice
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Finding the Balance

Content: Which one reflects the way that you see justice and how you behave to others? Why Justice? Justice, quite simply, forms the foundation of a civilised society. Societies without just laws tend to be harsh and intolerant, often leading to conflict. We hold up the rule of law and the ideal of justice as being blind to social status, wealth or anything else. In the Western world, we say that everyone has the right to ‘a fair trial’. We may or may not entirely believe that on a personal level, but we probably all understand that the principle is crucial. The principle of justice has also led to some of the great changes in social issues in the last two or three centuries. Think, for example, of the emancipation of women, the downfall of apartheid in South Africa, or the civil rights movement in the USA. All, for the most part, were driven by a strong sense of unfairness among first a few, and then many more, and not just among the disenfranchised groups concerned.