Different kinds of justice.

Justice has many duties. Because it balances sand guides, it takes even seemingly contradictory positions. Aristotle compares it to the pupil and the bedside table. It is the same star, yet it announces day at one time and night at another. Once asks that everything be divided equally (scholastic ethics calls it iustitia commutative), significant consideration must be given to the person, his past, the nature of the need (iustitia distributive). Social justice deserves particular study to maintain the right balance between conditions and classes of human society and those who work there.
According to Plato, justice is primarily needed to balance the inner spiritual life so that one virtue is not detrimental to another. Without justice, even Christian love. It is said that love is more important and higher than justice. Conversely, the poorly paid workers in the last century cried out that they did not care for the pet of their employers, that they wanted justice, and they refused extra pay in the form of gifts. No Christian doubts that perfection is in love. Justice, however, is a way of loving one’s neighbor to realize. It is undoubtedly impossible to be unjust and still want to “show love.” Both Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas understood this. Both put justice before other virtues because it benefits other people. It is an expression of love for one’s neighbor.
Therefore, justice was pursued above all by those who had the welfare of society, of the state, in mind. Thus, e.g., Emperor Alexander Severus is said never to have dared to pronounce a decision before twenty legal experts …had given his judgment. When he learned that some judge …he is said to have blinded him with his hand. To encourage the youth, an example was read of a Greek legislator of Leuki Zephyr, who prescribed the punishment of blinding for adultery. However, his son was caught. He was to be overwhelmed. But the people rebelled; they didn’t want a blind heir to the throne. Finally …the ruler softened enough to have one eye gouged out of his son and the other out of himself. However, even the Romans were aware that this would go too far. A proverb arose: “The greatest justice is usually the greatest injustice” (Summum ius summa iniuria). If we rigorously apply just laws, we show love to society. Unfortunately, in our social order, it quickly happens that the good of the whole is to the great detriment of the individual. Laws that mercilessly apply could make the state a monster that devours its children. If therefore, justice is supplemented by mercy, as it is said, it is not harming justice but helping it be better carried out.