I've mostly encountered those first two varieties, so a while back the word "justice" stopped being something I liked hearing... and I decided that I'd take compassionate pragmatism over justice any day.
In my mind, justice = fairness, only with an implication of power imbalance... but so few people see it that way that it's easier to just let them have the word. They can go ahead and talk about the criminal justice system as though it makes sense to call it that... I can't stop them. :(
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In my mind, justice = fairness, only with an implication of power imbalance... but so few people see it that way that it's easier to just let them have the word. They can go ahead and talk about the criminal justice system as though it makes sense to call it that... I can't stop them. :(