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Now, I am at work at the moment and a bit rushed, but I just HAD to respond to this one!
The first thing that comes to mind is justice as a deterrent: if there is no justice, life becomes brutish; one can kill his neighbor because of a miniscule disagreement. So justice as a deterrent makes society fair, not because of the punishment dished out after a crime, but because it makes the strong less likely to attack the weak and prevents the crime. Usually.
There are of course those who don't give a rat's ass for any laws and do what they will.
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