Recourse to random chance seeks a justice immune to human will.

Evidence

Two-Face’s insanity is also a kind of haemorrhaging of justice. In his case, the championing of a good cause — which it seems will inevitably leads to terrible consequences — is displaced by an embrace of chance’s random causality (heads/tails). The flip into randomness is not an abandonment of justice, but the quest for a justice that will not be corrupted by human will — in its very impersonal mechanism, chance is fair because it does not privilege any outcome or any individual. Interestingly, it is only when Dent becomes Two-Face that his coin tossing is fair; when Dent is the “White Knight” DA, his coin is loaded (it has heads on both sides). — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 576

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs with Fisher’s recurring concern with the impersonal and the critique of will-driven authority (ch24, ch33). — connects to: Planned chance serves as an alibi for rationalized society — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 113; Justice is revenge deferred and transformed into objective legal procedure — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 305; Random emotional shocks to judges produce arbitrary punishment decisions. — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 782 (+3 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The loaded coin as the ‘good’ state: the White Knight’s justice was secretly rigged from the start, and fairness arrives only in the fall.

Broader Connections

• Planned chance serves as an alibi for rationalized society #expands (0.92) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 113
• An appointed and uncorrectable earthly fate replaces the rule of law. #expands (0.78) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2694
• Random emotional shocks to judges produce arbitrary punishment decisions. #exemplifies (0.75) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 782
• Justice is revenge deferred and transformed into objective legal procedure #corroborates (0.72) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 305
• Capital juries force untrained citizens into life-or-death moral decisions #exemplifies (0.72)
• Humanitarian law must grant asymmetrical parties equal chances to fight. #qualifies (0.70)