And it was the sight of the whale, the bearing of witness to Ahab's demise as a consequence of his warped sense of justice, that drove Ishmael to his own obsession, the telling of the tale, replete with the encyclopedic depiction of the world and practice of whaling.
And the fact that they continue is a consequence of a criminally flawed justice system.
"A soldier should never be judged by a military tribunal when the victim of a crime is a civilian and human rights have been violated as a consequence of that crime," said Justice Arturo Zaldívar.
Justice Antonin Scalia, delivering his own dissent in the courtroom, said the majority had affirmed "what is perhaps the most radical injunction issued by a court in our nation's history". He added, "terrible things are sure to happen as a consequence of this outrageous order". Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Clarence Thomas also dissented.
Second, and partly as a consequence of this conceptualization of international justice, Rawls does not attempt to derive complete principles of international and global justice.
"A consequence of this is that access to justice for other litigants, either in the same case or in the cases that are waiting to be heard, will be compromised.
Their confinement at the airfield detention center for more than a decade prevented them from speaking earlier about their torture – a consequence of judges' support for the US justice department's contention that wartime detentions in Afghanistan were beyond the jurisdiction of federal courts.
First, Rawls suggests that limitations on distributive justice are a consequence of tolerating and respecting the economic decisions of peoples (Rawls 1999a, 117 118).
The breadth of Thursday's decision, the chief justice said, was a consequence of "the absence of any valid narrower ground".
He cannot defend himself in the civilian justice system as a consequence of an order by the very court system to which he turned in an effort to vindicate his rights as a U.S. citizen.
None, however, fully explain the doctrine, which seems to have developed more in response to the demands of social convenience and rough justice than as a consequence of clear, consistent legal explication.
