Even if you don't trust MAN'S made up systems of religion or govt that attempt to establish this elusive "JUSTICE"
Do you believe Justice exists without man making it up?
Do you believe there are natural laws of justice that operate that man does not control though every system on earth TRIES TO?
This is a very interesting question. Does the justice exist outside human perception? In the wild nature? No. Even among humans' perception the definition of justice can vary widely.
ESay Maybe in a different way.
One friend said that animals have a sense of wanting fairness that shows when they want equal attention or equal share of food.
Another friend believes that animals have varying degrees of spiritual consciousness and can choose to help others or choose to be selfish. It's not the same level as humans. Some people argue dogs are more unconditional and forgiving than people. Others think of animals as more survival driven and not having the capacity to think of survival of life beyond their own. With some animals having a distinct personality type connection with people, wanting to be happy can be taken as a basic level of wanting justice in terms of equal comfort and not wanting fear or stress. Again the degrees of critical awareness of relative factors vary greatly whether you call this spiritual or social or physiological levels of development. Most people have a sense that humans are a higher being than animals but I have friends who disagree and believe animals can spiritually evolve and possibly change socially and physically along with it. Who knows?
Maybe you know that among vast number of animals there exists the right of the strongest. Those who are stronger get territory, females, better food.
Moreover, the very existence of predators contradicts the principle of universal justice I think.
Maybe nature uses animals to teach humans the difference
between just running on nature, and structuring society and how
we operate so these impulses don't cause us to destroy ourselves.
The way nature works on its own, without selfish interference by ego,
tends to balance out where the ecosystem stays in balance if we let it.
Where man has interfered with natural balance and introduced things like
* nondegradable pollution that doesn't go away but kills the environment
* nonnative predators or plants in areas that have no way to stop the takeover
* killing off species that used to replenish themselves within an ecosystem
then we lose this balance.
However, something in man's nature also calls us to conscience to stop
the destruction where it is unnatural. So we should perhaps learn to listen
to Nature as the animals do, when the bees build their hives by nature,
or the lowly puffer fish builds a beautiful pattern in the sand that can only
be seen from overhead to attract his mate to fill a nest together.
Maybe we have something to learn by tapping into the same instinct
that animals have when following nature's justice that has a good side, too!
Is there we can manage both: both our natural instincts to keep in harmony
with the earth in balance AND our higher drive to make humanity and the
world a better place than previous generations?