Law and justice are often misinterpreted as the same thing. However, this is a mistake and even if the two have a symbiotic relationship, they cannot be considered the same. There is a relationship between law and justice and since they are not mutually exclusive, I will try to highlight this relationship in the following paragraphs. To understand the nature of the relationship between law and justice, we must first understand what both of these terms mean in isolation. First, let's consider justice. Justice is often used interchangeably with “fairness.” While this relationship is true to some extent, justice is more of a social term, geared towards achieving fairness for the entire society. Fairness is a subjective term, where each individual's concept of what is fair is different from another's. What one person may consider right for himself, may not be considered right at all by another. Justice is a concept that seeks to incorporate all of these individuals' personal concepts of fairness and arrive at a solution that suits all parties. A just society, according to Plato, is a society in which all its members are happy. (Kelson, 3) However, the subjective nature of justice makes the term very difficult to adequately define. While the above may serve to illustrate the broader meaning of justice, in practice what is considered justice for one party does not necessarily mean the same thing for another. For example, a hungry person steals bread from a bakery to satisfy his hunger. The baker takes it and hands it over to the authorities. The authorities in turn punish the hungry man for stealing. In this case, justice is served from the baker's perspective. Justice is also served from society's perspective, as a righteous man would not steal. However, for the hungry man, he took a loaf of bread, which the baker had