What is justice? Is it cultural or universal?

[GOLDENICE]

Justice seems to change as societies develop. More tribal in nature rather than individual unless an autocratic leader. Would like other opinions please. Thanks 

[NameName]

I'm not entirely sure, but I'd like to just put out some definitions to develop this question:

 

Justice: Just behavior or treatment.

Just: Based on or behaving according to what is morally right and fair.

Moral: Concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character.

[Kevin Beal]

Have you heard these podcasts?

 

FDR232 Justice

http://media.freedomainradio.com/feed/FDR_232_Justice.mp3

 

FDR1553 Restitution

http://media.freedomainradio.com/feed/FDR_1553_restitution.mp3

[Patrick Stephen Mangan]

Along with what @itsmassive said, just = fair, an equal level of response and reaction, or ^retribution.

 

Most historical definitions of justice have not actually been just at all, I think because they've been derived from the idea of breaking with perfection, or the dictates of a perfect and "righteous" god or state. And that if you break with perfection from what is "righteous/good," then it would be justice that any and all evil be done to you, which isn't actually just or equal at all. Rational justice would be more like a mathematical equation, or balancing a scale.

 

To answer the question in the subject line, I think that objective/rational equal reaction justice is universal, and justice based on abstracts that do not exist based on empirical logic and evidence is cultural.