What is Justice?

Everyone has it.  The sense of what is fair and unfair.  More than that everyone wants that fairness to be reflected in the world around them.  When someone sees something that is unfair a part of their soul is offended and calls for justice -- to make it right.  This inborn passion for justice drives people and societies to act in fairness and enforce that fairness upon each other.  When justice is successfully enforced that inborn desire is satisfied and prosperity joy and happiness follow.

However, some of the above is a lie.  People cry out when injustice is inflicted upon them.  They cry for someone or some other force to make right when they have been wronged.  However, when they wrong another or their actions violate fairness people do not cry for justice but strive to hide from it or worse--beg for mercy.

Justice is fairness.  Reward or punishment is attributed with perfect singularity for every action.  Perfectly deserved consequence creates perfect.

If people are born yearning for justice, why does it become corrupted?  Mercy love compassion are the enemy of justice.  They erode it and destroy it.  People have learned they can be unjust and prosper.  They see others cheat their fellows and not get caught.  They see no negative consequence for unjust actions.  They are tempted, no encouraged, to commit actions of injustice in order to prosper.  When mercy withholds punishment it perpetuates injustice.

Only if justice is upheld and enforced can the people learn to live a just life and trust in its rewards.

It is those who perpetuate mercy and forgiveness who cause the greatest pain.  It is those who preach compassion over consequence that threaten to destroy the fabric of a good society.  It is those who perpetuate any virtue above Justice who are to blame for every ill which now plagues society.

The gods have the power to and responsibility for this. It is they who have failed.  It is I who will succeed. The Red Army will march and the Saint shall extend his reach.  Consequence good and ill shall befall the world until it is made just.  Only through the Justice of the Saint can we be saved.

----The Red Canon Preamble