Has Justice been Served? [The Repair 1] : post 7.1/9
This is part 7.1 (post 7.1/9) of a series on Justice . In this post, we turn to the least represented dimension in our entire Justice vocabulary: Repair . To compensate for my earlier linguistic deficit, which perfectly mirrors the State's own neglect of the Recipient, I decided to thoroughly map the mechanics of restoration. The resulting analysis is too large for a single essay, so Part 7 will be released in three installments (7.1, 7.2, and 7.3.). - ה - What is Repair? In Justice, Repair is the act of returning the Recipient to the state they occupied before an Act occurred ; a form of restoration. For humans, this may be where Justice began, and it is where Justice ultimately ends. Repair is an act of homeostasis: bringing what was pushed out of order back into order. It is what allows life to become livable again. As discussed in the previous posts, Repair, or its absence, is also where the largest gap appears between Institutional Justice and the human feeling of Justice. Ove...