Belief in a Just World

Mostly? Researchers point out
That if you believe the world

Is just, then it just makes sense
You’d be more conservative,

Or would at least trust it is
The way it ought to be, but

Trust in a just world rarely,
If ever, is summative.

You may feel most of it’s just
Or that it bends to justice,

But you still reserve the right
To carve it up, case by case—

Just if you get to call it,
Unjust any other way.