People speak out for peace, justice, reason; people are jailed, beaten, shot, torched.
Thus, the appeal to universal values, such as the good and the beautiful, truth and justice, reason and experience, liberty and humanity, will leave no one indifferent, but the consequences to be drawn from these notions will vary with the meaning attached to them by the different individuals.
And if a justice reasoned incorrectly on a recusal request, there would be no independent review.
In the end, though, the justice reasoned that none of the complex formulas mattered very much.
Of course, government should also remain open to providing infrastructure for social justice reasons that may not fit into this model.
"The best business investment you can make is to end poverty," Slim continues, "not for political or ethical or social justice reasons but for economic reasons".
"We believe that we need to re-localise our economy, bring manufacturing and food production back to Britain, to build our economy around local businesses, small businesses and co-operatives for environmental, economic and social justice reasons.
"For justice reasons, but now we can also make fun of how he looks, because no one's gonna come to his defense.
"This may be a first-of-its-kind decision, overturning NEPA analysis for environmental justice reasons," says Jan Hasselman, an attorney with Earthjustice who is representing the tribe in the suit.
More appealing, perhaps, would be a very short opinion, of a few paragraphs or pages, incorporating various justices' reasons for not addressing the merits of the case.
If the Constitution gave people the right to a lawyer, the justices reasoned, then it necessarily gave them to right to dispense with one, as well.
