But it has been my experience that hoods almost always feel they are unjustly treated. Prisons are filled with hoods. So it is to be expected that prison populations feel things are unjust. They are not a representative of how the law is perceived as just across society.
As to your point that we just know what is just. It is 1859 and I am a slave catcher enforcing the fugitive slave law. I know in my heart that my actions are just. The fugitive slave knows in his heart that his flight to freedom is just.
How are these positions reconciled?
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