Justice in the Face of Terror

Justice is an aspiration, not a fixed standard, so counterterrorism cannot hand its proportionality judgments to a rule.

The paper begins from the position that justice is not an absolute but an ideal: subjective, contextual, and a matter of righteousness rather than of measurement. Weighing the scales and determining the appropriate punishment is treated as a skill exercised under uncertainty, not a calculation.

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