Whose justice?

On the one hand: the nature of the power dynamic between the parties involved, which may involve hypothetical parties in the future in the event of needing to punish or reward someone for something.

On the other: the formal analogy of how the particular transaction had been structured.

So many of our seemingly intractable dilemmas in our ethics and seemingly heaven-mandated offenses to all natural sense of propriety and justice and compassion explode, evaporate and dematerialize when we allow ourselves to prioritize the former over the latter.

That our law enshrines the latter is proof of its depravity.