Justice and fairness are words that appear relatively often in our vocabulary and we use them quite confidently. But once we think about these words as such, their meaning and the concept behind them, we soon find that our ideas on justice and fairness are different and that the principles and values on which they are based are also often contradictory. The history of mankind has always been interested in the question of justice and fairness, yet despite all of the effort invested, we could probably agree that so far, we have not managed to find an answer with which we would all agree or which would universally correspond to all societies. According to Kelsen1, this happens because this is one of those questions for which resigned wisdom holds true that one can never find a final answer but can merely strive to ask better questions. In general, we could search for an answer about justice and fairness in the starting point provided by Plato who equated justice and fairness with luck, claiming that only a fair person can truly be happy while an unfair person is unhappy. When transferring this concept to an individual level, we can try to understand justice and fairness to mean that the actions of an individual are fair or just if they do not cause injustice to somebody else; when it comes to the social structure, societies must be arranged in a manner that enables all citizens to realise their interests, whereby they must not be in an unequal position due to the circumstances which they could not influence themselves.
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