⚖️ Legal Fairness

Definition

Legal fairness in the context of Live and Let Live refers to consistent and transparent administration of justice and provision of due process.

Discussion

Overview

Legal fairness ensures the Legal Principle is adhered to when seeking to resolve a dispute.

Without legal fairness, even the most consistently-interpreted laws prohibiting aggression are meaningless in disputes.

As such, rejecting legal fairness is the fifth-listed form of aggressing and, as such, a breach of the Legal Principle.

The main ways to reject legal fairness include obstructing justice and failing to provide due process.

Other considerations

The goal of legal fairness is to best facilitate the truth when an act of aggressing has occurred or been alleged.

Without procedures being applied equally, society risks punishing innocent people who have committed no aggressing act.

At the same time, a lack of legal fairness allowing aggressors to avoid accountability for their actions.

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