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Originally Posted by Qilin
It's a social construct for sure,
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I'm not sure it's accurate to say that justice is just a social construct. Unless by that you simply mean that for justice to exist, you must have people (i.e. sentient beings), which is true. Justice is meaningless and practically non-existent in a barren wasteland, of course.
But I think that justice is a bit more innate than just some idea that people thought of some day. I don't think that justice is "discovered" the same way that you discover an advancement in Sid Meier's Civilization game, for example. Justice is more than just some "good idea" that somebody had someday to try to push forward civilization.
I think that, due to basic human empathy and some other factors, people have an
innate sense of what constitutes justice and what constitutes injustice. And I'm inclined to think that people always had this sense of justice, at least once humans gained higher thinking capacities.