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    It is not the case that Justice, understood as the rules governing human intercourse, is grounded in the need to avoid distress.

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    • 1.Plato's Republic demonstrates that justice is a functional harmony of soul and city, not a contractual instrument for pain-avoidance.
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    • 2.If justice were merely distress-avoidance, the perfectly unjust man who escapes detection would have no reason to be just, contradicting our firm moral intuitions.
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    • 1.Kant argues that justice is grounded in respect for rational autonomy, making its authority categorical and independent of any contingent desires including distress.
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    • 2.A distress-based account makes justice merely instrumental, but Kant's Formula of Humanity forbids treating persons as means, a constraint that holds even when injustice would produce no distress.
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    • 1.Justice is a contract among humans to avoid suffering harm from one another.
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    • 2.Injustice produces fear and distress in the wrongdoer.
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    • 3.Avoiding distress is the fundamental motivation in Epicurean moral psychology.
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