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Okay, I mean we just went over this but here ya go. Here's what I said:Quote me.
To which you responded:Yes, but your claim is that volunteer status must be part of my analogy.
So I don't need to make the person going to prison be a volunteer.No, it doesn't have to be at all.
It doesn't need to be, but it happens to be. So what?"Paying" doesn't need to be part of your analogy.
There is no ambiguity. They're entirely different words.I'm not exploiting any ambiguity there.
And now we're back to the beginning. Why isn't mercy a violation of justice? That's what I asked, and all you've done is point out more specific examples of mercy, and then say you proved that they aren't a violation of justice because they're mercy.Because pardons and clemency fall under the categories of mercy, and not justice. Are you calling all pardons and clemency unjust?
So let's look up "injustice":
injustice
noun
in·jus·tice | \ (ˌ)in-ˈjə-stəs \
Definition of injustice
1: absence of justice : violation of right or of the rights of another : UNFAIRNESS
2: an unjust act : WRONG
An act is an injustice if that act is unjust. We've established that mercy is unjust. It's the absence of justice, because justice is folks getting what they deserve, and mercy is folks not getting what they deserve. It isn't fair, which is something that @Mark Quayle pointed out. So in light of the dictionary, which is authoritative according to you, how do you show that mercy is not injustice?
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