MATHETΩN

“If the poster really meant to state that ‘individual justice’ [his term for any justice without overwhelming force] would be unjust, then he must believe that societal justice must be unjust any way it is configured — for what is society but individuals by the dozens or millions? Adding one million unjust things is to have injustice — this is simple arithmetic.

“However, I think that what he meant to state is that ‘your justice, or his justice’ would be unjust. While ‘hizzoner’s justice, or the reverend’s justice, or that very smart man over there’s justice’ is indeed just and society can and must rely on it.

“Every argument for archism ends up this way: that there are humans, who are unreliable, despicable, and even risible, and then there are ueber-humans — transformed by the magic of expertism, institutionalism, divine right, and so on — who only can look out for the common good, and if we know what’s good for us we’ll give them silent obeisance.

“The Christ-follower, however, knows that there is only one justice, Christ’s, in any human who will hear Him in the heart …”