If you didn't believe justice was a crucial element to the integrity of our existence, then a philosopher could very quickly show your hypocrisy.
Tied to justice is the pre requisite of a moral law.
Tied to a moral law, is a person or personhood.
Justice is a human personal construct. A turtle, a deer, a dog, a tree, an omoeba doesn't have the consciousness or capacity to know, pursue or create a system of justice.
Which brings me to Romans 8.
Many folks generally don't have a hard time accepting what i just laid out. In fact, most, if not all have said that aspects like religion have been the cause of so much injustice.
Imagine for a moment, if we lived into perpetuity.
Think of the amount of injustice building up and up, layer upon layer, brick of evil upon evil brick.
As far as the East is from the West, and then some.
Yet our innate desire for justice is still there.
How do we solve this in effect, unsolveable problem?
I'd like to suggest, especially to my irreligious friends, scripture seems to provide such a solution to this problem, in God being the only one who can provide universal rationale justice:
"So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death.
The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature.
So God did what the law could not do.
He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins.
He did this so that the just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied for us, who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit.
Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit. So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace.
For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will. That’s why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God. But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you. (And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them do not belong to him at all.) And Christ lives within you, so even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit gives you life because you have been made right with God.
The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.
Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do. For if you live by its dictates, you will die. But if through the power of the Spirit you put to death the deeds of your sinful nature, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God."
Romans 8:1-14
https://bible.com/bible/116/rom.8.1-14.NLT
Postscript.
The irreligious, will have a hard time accpeting or understanding the term "sin" in the above passage. I can appreciate that, but it's not a far stretch to identify with it, becuase it means "to miss the mark".
Ever used the word "pefect" in a sentence about your life or someone or something else? In order for that to be true, there has to be a benchmark or target of what perfection actuall is.
In the moral sense, no one is perfectly moral.
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