Haitian government officials who break the law, be they police officers or presidents, typically elude justice, benefiting from a weak, corrupt judicial system.
Mr Riaz did not directly accuse Mr Chaudhry of corruption, and there is no evidence that the chief justice benefited from the money, but he also apparently asked no questions about his son's extravagant ways.
In the last election, in 2005, Law and Justice benefited from low voter turnout, needing only 3.2 million votes in a country of 38 million to take control of the Sejm, the crucial lower house of Parliament, as a minority government or in a coalition with several smaller parties.
That did not keep former chairmen and members of the S.E.C. from giving the justices the benefit of their views.
The downward trend, as reported by Pew, might point to a public less willing to give the justices the benefit of the doubt when it comes to rulings on politically charged issues.
But the alternative, which Protagoras apparently prefers, is a conceptual divorce between the notions of justice and benefit, which restrict the application of Protagoras' theory to the notion of justice.
Artists for Peace and Justice, a benefit for Haiti, had well-heeled guests playing dominoes to raise money on Thursday; a Unicef brunch was scheduled for Saturday.
To find the company guilty, the jurors must decide that one or more "agents of Andersen" committed an obstruction of justice to benefit the firm.
would be that it is a critique of the society that produces the conceptual divorce between justice and benefit that has just emerged.
When societies respect the equality of girls and women and "give" them control of their reproductive rights as a matter of justice, societies benefit.
