![]() ![]() Whether it’s balancing the harms caused by a crime against the punishment handed down in a court of law, or seeking compensation for oppression carried out over centuries, the demand for justice assumes that settlement must be made, costs must be paid, wrongs must be righted. We can argue about the precise meaning of the term ‘justice’, but most definitions would draw on ideals of balance and fairness. But is it true? At first glance, justice and love have entirely different, even contradictory, qualities, and elision flatters both. ‘J ustice is what love looks like in public,’ Cornel West said some years ago, a slogan now so well-known that you see it on T-shirts and posters, a kind of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ or ‘This House Runs on Love, Laughter and Prosecco’ for the activist left. ![]()
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