Title: Justice versus Social Justice - Foundation for Economic Education
Headings: Justice versus Social Justice
Justice versus Social Justice
Distinctions About Justice
Justice vs. Collectivism
Vagueness of “Desert”
Is the Punishment Deserved?
“Equal Pay for Equal Work”
Justice and Job-Discrimination
Curing Past Discrimination by New Discrimination
Other Aspects of Job-Discrimination
Justice and the Market
Market Rewards
Misfortune vs. Injustice
Justice vs. “Social Justice”
The “Underprivileged” and Why They Are Poor
Coercive or Voluntary
Try Freedom
Supporters of Schemes
John Hospers

Content: Because, of course, this would be a great injustice, especially to the students deserving A’s. It would also be mercy to give everyone a job demanding literary skill, even to persons who are illiterate—and more merciful still to give them wages for doing nothing at all. Mercy in this sense would mean a total abandonment of justice. ( Mercy in a much different sense, such as “giving the defendant the benefit of the doubt” in criminal cases [procedural justice], giving him a chance to improve his conduct, etc., is desirable enough, but these are already incorporated in the notion of just treatment; they are included in justice, they do not supersede it.) Justice vs. Collectivism
5. Most important of all, justice is individualistic: since the deserts of individuals differ from one another, so should their rewards and punishments differ from one another. That is why Aristotle said that justice consists of “treating equals equally, and unequals unequally.”