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From Volf's chapter Oppression and Justice (discussing the plurality of justice among competing and similar cultures and how our own desire for justice which gets carried out by the flexing of our muscles [in all the various forms: exclusion, war, isolation, abandonment] inevitably leads us back to injustice) "The human ability to agree on justice will never catch up with the human propensity to do injustice." "The principle can not be denied: the fiercer the struggle against the injustice you suffer, the blinder you will be to the injustice you inflict. We tend to translate the presumed wrongness of our enemies into an unfaltering conviction of our own rightness. However, sensitivity to plurality is essential, the affirmation of plurality is spurious." "Abdication of responsibility will be tempting to those who only know how to live in a world neatly divided into territories of pure light and of utter darkness. But no such world exists, except in the imagination of the self-righteous; the construction of such a world is itself an act of injustice. In a world shot through with injustice, the struggle for justice must be carried on my people inescapably tainted by injustice. We need to see our judgments about justice and our struggle against injustice through the eyes of the other - even the manifestly "unjust other" - and be willing to readjust our understanding of justice and repent of acts of injustice." "There can be no justice without the will to embrace. To agree on justice you need to make space, you need to want to embrace the other. If you insist that others do not belong to you and you to them, that their perspective should not muddle yours, you will have your justice and they will have theirs; your justices will clash and there will be no justice between you. The knowledge of justice depends on the will to embrace. The relationship between justice and embrace goes much deeper, however. Embrace is part and parcel of the very definition of justice. I am not talking about soft mercy tampering harsh justice, but about love shaping the very content of justice." "If you want justice and nothing but justice, you will inevitably get injustice." "The justice which equalizes and abstracts is an unjust justice!"