"The law is a schema that tries to cover as many cases as it can, as fairly, equitably, and even-handedly as it can. But it never quite can. The law inevitably, structurally, falls short of individuals, because it cannot see what it is aimed at, about which it systematically, structurally, keeps itself in the dark.
Deconstruction, which 'is justice,' on the other hand, keeps its eye peeled for the little bits and loose fragments easily lost sight of by the law. Deconstruction is on the watch for the exclusion, the victims, the injustice produced by the law, which even the best laid laws inevitably produce. Laws always silence, coerce, squeeze, or level someone, somewhere, however small. Deconstruction's justice does not aim at disinterested impartiality but at a preferential option for the disadvantaged, the differends, the losers, leftovers, the little bits and fragments. Far from being blind, justice cultivates a fine, suspicious eye, one might even say a 'prophetic' eye, an eye too many as far as the law is concerned."
- John D. Caputo, Against Ethics
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