The first important task, before continuing this essay, is to define justice. ... Both of these intellectuals give very persuasive arguments, but Socrates is a bit harsher in his critique. ... Thoreau in his essay Civil Disobedience also accuses the government of being unjust. ... As one reads Thoreau's essay, one has a better understanding of how immutable the tension between politics and justice is. For example, Thoreau writes "Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice." ...

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