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Table of Contents Fowls and Cockroaches Analogy  Thrasymachus on Justice Scapegoating of Justice Fairness and Impartiality Imagined Justice Implied Justice Conclusion I will begin this writing with an expression: ‘A cockroach cannot be innocent in the gatherings of fowls.’ Is this a ‘matter of fact’ or a ‘matter of statement?’ From experience, cockroaches are insects while fowls are birds and as such, the latter appear as predators of the former. Fowls can have cockroaches as food. The cockroaches before fowls are convicted, condemned, and eaten as food. That’s the way nature has planned it. If the fowls can talk, they will argue that it is justifiable to feed on cockroaches. But for cockroaches, it is not fair that they are condemned as food for fowls. No matter what they do, their innocence always turns out with a guilty verdict. For cockroaches, there is no justice. The expression above can also be a ‘matter of statement’ since it is an empirical declaration. You can either agre...