Definition Essay: What Is Justice?

What is Justice? When you hear the word “justice”, what do you think? Do you think of super heroes saving victims, beating the bad guys? Do you think of a murderer being sent to prison for his crimes? Do you think of the school bully getting beat up for stealing your lunch money all these years? What do you hear and think when the word justice is brought to your mind? Justice is defined as, “just behavior or treatment.” In most situations that definition is good enough, but that isn’t enough to describe justice to me. I would define justice as giving the world peace and equality for every action and reaction. If you have done wrong you will be punished for that wrong, because who you have done wrong needs justice for your actions. Around areas such as the United States, justice is shown through punishment and humiliation for the person who has done the crime. “Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is punishment”, Mahatma Gandhi. When we read what Gandhi has said we can acknowledge that the law deals with things simply. For justice they will lock you in jail or give you the death penalty. Now the ranges of this can vary depending on the crime you have committed. You
Some want their justice brutal and excruciating. Some want their justice to a bare minimal unless they are being harmed. Neither of these are the kind of justice I would like in the world. “Peace and Justice are two sides of the same coin”, Dwight D. Eisenhower. If we give the people justice we give the world peace. An example for justice to me is: a school bully steals a classmate’s lunch money, and afterwards his money is stolen by someone else. In this ordeal he learns how it feels on the other side of the stick. He then realises what his actions have done and starts to philosophically think about what has happened and what he can do to prevent others from doing what he has done in the past. In this he becomes a better