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justice and injustice  

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  • The concepts of justice and injustice have been deployed for about two and a half millennia to evaluate human beings, human actions, and the consequences—discrete and aggregate—of human actions. Although the concept of justice has been developed into numerous and often conflicting conceptions, its applications have evolved considerably. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Justice and Injustice]

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