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            Does absolute justice exist or not? This essay will present arguments for the existence of absolute justice.
             Many people disagree that absolute justice exists. Thus they argue that justice cannot be derived from nature since contradictory and different forms of justice exist in nature; and one cannot derive the greater and perfect from the lesser and imperfect, also they argue that the idea of absolute justice is the ideas of different cultures and times. That is why the idea of justice varies greatly from one culture to the next. The argument used to disprove the above statements will stem from the relationship of order to justice. The next paragraphs will present the arguments above.
             Culture and philosophy have always gone hand in hand. A person who lived in the Middle Ages thought it to be perfectly just to cut off the hand of a thief. In "modern times" we consider ourselves more "civilized", and put people in jail or fine them for stealing. As time and culture changed, so does philosophy. Thus any person of sense will see that justice cannot be absolute since it changed with the times. Each culture has developed a different idea of perfect justices to meet their own individual needs. Since more then one form of absolute or perfect justice cannot exist, thus absolute justice does not exist. Rather for each individual society justice is like beauty that it is in the eye of the beholder.
             Here presented the other case against absolute justice. Their arguments made that absolute justice can be derived from nature. Without questions nature holds a system of justice. However natural justice or rather the law of the jungle is another words justice that is in the interest of the stronger. That is obviously an imperfect justice, for the just and correct are not always the stronger. Or justice is perhaps helping friends and harming enemies, like a group of animals that cannot hunt on their own. Thus we see many different forms of justice in nature.


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