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Well, the healthcare system has been transformed: a culture pervaded with defensiveness, universal distrust of the system of justice, universal practice of defensive medicine.
In the eyes of many people, after the animals are seized, they say, "Yay, justice has been served.
I also want it to be powerful and eloquent, and to do as much justice as possible to the experience of the people I'm photographing.
The UN estimates that worldwide, four billion people live without basic access to justice.
Law is supposed to be the language we use to translate our dreams about justice into living institutions that hold us together.
If we're going to make justice a reality for everyone, we need to turn law from an abstraction or a threat into something that every single person can understand, use and shape.
The same should be true of justice.
Kush is part of a team of community paralegals that works for environmental justice on the Gujarat coast.
Whether it's India, Kenya, the United States or anywhere else, trying to squeeze justice out of broken systems is like Ravi's case.
Maybe not today, maybe not this year, maybe not in five years, but find justice.
So I'm going to make a few assumptions that people in this room know what the Sustainable Development Goals are and how the process works, but I want us to talk a little bit about Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions.
But there was no mention of justice or fairness or accountability or corruption, and we have made progress during the 15 years when those goals were in effect, but we are way behind what justice demands, and we're not going to get there unless we take justice into account.
And so when the debate started about the next development framework, the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, our community came together around the world to argue that access to justice and legal empowerment should be a part of that new framework.
The 16th out of 17 goals commits to access to justice for all, which is a big deal.
Let's clap for justice.
On access to justice, we had the words on the paper, but nobody pledged a penny, and so that is the opportunity and the challenge that we face right now.
The world recognizes more than ever before that you can't have development without justice, that people can't improve their lives if they can't exercise their rights, and what we need to do now is turn that rhetoric, turn that principle, into reality.
Just like health or education, access to justice should be one of the things that a government owes its people, and we're nowhere close to that, neither in rich countries or poor countries.
We are talking about an accountable society, a society that is fair and just, and we don't even do justice in the knowledge market.
So, obviously, you cannot have two principles of justice, one for yourself and one for others.
Lying just beneath the surface of those arguments, with passions raging on all sides, are big questions of moral philosophy, big questions of justice.
First, let me take a famous philosopher who wrote about those questions of justice and morality, give you a very short lecture on Aristotle of ancient Athens, Aristotle's theory of justice, and then have a discussion here to see whether Aristotle's ideas actually inform the way we think and argue about questions today.
According to Aristotle, justice means giving people what they deserve.
But when we think about justice, Aristotle says, what we really need to think about is the essential nature of the activity in question and the qualities that are worth honoring and admiring and recognizing.
Let's take a contemporary example of the dispute about justice.
Suppose you were deciding the justice of this case.
What was interesting about their ruling and about the discussion we've just had is that the discussion about the right, the justice, of the matter depended on figuring out what is the essential nature of golf.
That illustrates that with golf, as with flutes, it's hard to decide the question of what justice requires, without grappling with the question, "What is the essential nature of the activity in question, and what qualities, what excellences connected with that activity, are worthy of honor and recognition?"
Now, put it this way: What ways of thinking about justice and morality underlie the arguments we have over marriage?
Very hard to argue about justice without first arguing about the purpose of social institutions and about what qualities are worthy of honor and recognition.
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