"I must introduce a parenthetical protest against the abuse of the
current term 'social justice'. From meaning 'justice in relations
between groups or classes' it may slip into meaning a particular
assumption as to what these relationships should be; and a course of
action might be supported because it represented the aim of 'social
justice', which from the point of view of 'justice' was not just. The
term 'social justice' is in danger of losing its rational content—which
would be replaced by a powerful emotional charge. I believe that I have
used the term myself: it should never be employed unless the user is
prepared to define clearly what social justice means to him, and why he
thinks it just."
-T.S. Eliot, Notes Towards the Definition of Culture
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