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Ideas for Blaise Pascal, Bob Hale/ Aviv Hoffmann and Einstein,A/Infeld,L

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

6680	It is a funny sort of justice whose limits are marked by a river [Pascal]
	Full Idea: It is a funny sort of justice whose limits are marked by a river; true on this side of the Pyrenees, false on the other.
	From: Blaise Pascal (Pensées [1662], 60 (294))
	A reaction: Pascal gives nice concise summaries of our intuitions. Legal justice may be all we can actually get, but everyone knows that what happens to someone could be 'fair' on one side of a river, and very 'unfair' on the other.