Justice is a massive topic. It is a very deep topic. And it is a vitally important topic. So, in an effort to simplify and introduce this topic I have divided it into five general categories: 1) Equality Under the Law, 2) Fundamental Rights, 3) Justice Based on Merit, 4) Justice Based on Value In and Value Out, and 5) Justice Based on Grace. Let’s briefly discuss these categorically.

1. Equality Under the Law
   • The law applies to everyone equally.
   • Everyone receives equal protection under the law.
   • Nobody is above the law.
   • Everyone is exalted by law and entitled to certain rights and privileges according to those laws that have jurisdiction over them.
   • Equity and justice under the law are hierarchical.
   • Rights and privileges under the law are hierarchical.
   • Just laws are calculated and instituted for the protection of fundamental rights and for the accomplishment of all righteousness.
2. Fundamental Rights (The Law of Liberty)
   • The laws of justice protect everyone’s rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness.  
   • When persons threaten or infringe upon the fundamental rights of others, the aggressors must justifiably be reduced and restricted in their rights. For example, when one man commits violence upon another man, the aggressor’s rights to life and liberty are reduced because he is infringing upon another’s rights and he is abusing his own rights by doing evil to another.
   • When a person’s fundamental rights are infringed upon or threatened, justice requires swift restitution of one’s security in these rights. Hence, one has the right to self-defense, a speedy and just trial, equitable restitution, and the incarceration or punishment of those who threaten or violate the fundamental rights of others.
   • Justice requires that governments be instituted according to the laws of justice, for the protection of everyone’s fundamental rights.
3. Justice Based on Merit
   • Justice requires equitable compensation based on merit.
   • Justice requires equitable privileges based on merit.
   • Justice requires increase and decrease based on merit.
4. Justice Based on Value In and Value Out
   • Justice requires that as we receive value from others, that we likewise labor diligently to return equal or greater value as well, according to our abilities; or if that is not possible, to pay it forward.
   • Based on the continual value and benefit we continually receive from God, justice requires that we likewise labor diligently to do as much good as we can for others as well, by always seeking to do that which produces the best value, the best benefit, and the best outcome.
   • Those who do their best to benefit others are called producers. Those who are content to receive value and benefits without doing what they can to likewise benefit others are called parasites, moochers, and free-riders.
   • Those who seek to gain the most and do the least are in severe violation of the laws of justice and are classified as “the wicked.” 
5. Justice Based on Grace
   • Those who have paid the price for greater knowledge, privileges, and benefits by their faith may likewise seek to benefit others by temporal acts of grace, and that benefit is justified because it is extended with the intent to lift and benefit others, and as an added just benefit for the faith and righteousness that was previously demonstrated.
   • Those who receive that grace and are enlarged by it get to retain the benefits that were offered to them and are justified.
   • Those who reject that grace and diminish must lose the benefits that were offered them and they are condemned by justice for their rejection of grace.