What is Justice? transcript

"Is a just outcome to create a similar, proportionate level of pain, loss, discomfort in the person who acted, possibly as an attempt to re-educate them around their behaviour. Does that create a just outcome?"
"Or is justice something very different?"
"Is justice about re-establishing, re-stitching therelationships that connect us? Is it actually about restoration; restoration not as in doing up the whole building, but restoration as in recovering balance after one has fallen, after one has tripped. So restoration needs to be understood quite specifically. It is not an attempt to return to a previous stage, because then we don't get the benefits of conflict, which are about learning, growing, moving forwards. So, is that what creates justice? Is justice whene we re-establish balanced, harmonious relationships? Is justice, at the end of the day, about connection: connection within us, and connection in the sense of shared experience and shared values as a community?"

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