Mill on Justice

Mill's argument pertaining to justice is just as complicated as his definition of justice. He tries to lay out the origins of the words justice and right and wrong to explain how they are connected with morals. He determines that somewhere along the line, right and wrong were turned into law, while justice deals with impartiality and punishing fairly for crimes committed. He noticed that a moral aspect of justice comes from sympathy of humans and their ability to retaliate to wrongs committed against them. This means that a person will align themselves with a victim in wanting a person guilty of crime to pay for that crime. He notes that the other part of justice, while not determining morality, does give justice the attractiveness of the subject. Overall, what I think he is trying to say is that the idea of justice poses a strong argument against the greatest good argument, but that justice is actually a special case of utilitarianism.