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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
"justice" - a subjective idea has little to do with "rights" which are codified in law and are black and white.
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Something does not "become a right" because it's "codified in law". The whole purpose of codifying things is to protect the rights people already have. The US was founded on that principle. Read the Declaration of Independence.
And as Bastiat wrote in "The law", justice is the absence of injustice. An act of injustice is committed when someone violates someone else's rights. Murder is an act of injustice because it's a violation of that individual's (property) rights (See self ownership.). Theft is an act of injustice because it's a violation of an individual's (property) rights. Fraud is an act of injustice because it's a violation of an individual's (property) rights (Fraud is essentially "theft by trick" as it was originally called). etc