Justice and law don’t overlap. The former is based on the accordance between difference and equality. Its logic is the one of desire: we cannot keep being desiring subjects without respecting the other’s desire and consequently his/her difference. The latter is a compromise between equality of differences and follows the logic of needs where human beings are the same but not equal. When differences are alive and related, laws reflect actions in their potentiality, giving them a regulation based on their contingency, on their possibility to be realized otherwise. When needs prevail (because of an homeostatic order of the collective psyche) laws reflect linear actions imposed by necessity, whose meaning is only in their concrete result.
