Wise Sage wrote:
How can justice exist if the majority decides what is just? How can we ever know if the unjust is right if the majority picks? And is justice nothing more then for what it benefits? These are questions that will start this post.

Mako wrote:
I think you need to rephrase your questions for the sake of coherency.

Most Western democracies are constitutional-democracies and thus legislation, policies and regulations are limited by the basic, guiding constitutional principles which govern a nation. Legislation, regulations etc. are therefore subject to judicial review (i.e. appeals). Constitutions and judicial review thus serve to moderate the effects of majority rule. Constitutional adjudication however is subject to varying interpretations and those interpretations tend to vary over time, according to which direction the political winds have been blowing.

treemanshope wrote:
"Justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution."
Thomas Aquinas.

Justice is the denial of mercy and mercy is the denial of justice. Only a higher force can reconcile these opposites: wisdom.