Book 5
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since the lesser of two evils is more desirable than the greater, but what is desirable is good, and the more desirable it is, the greater good it is.
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This then is one kind of Justice.
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The remaining kind is Corrective Justice, which operates in private transactions, both voluntary and involuntary.
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This justice is of a different sort from the preceding. For justice in distributing common property always conforms with the proportion we have described (since when a distribution is made from the common stock, it will follow the same ratio as that between the amounts which the several persons have contributed to the common stock); and the injustice opposed to justice of this a kind is a violation of this proportion.
