The definitive goal of law is to maintain and achieve justice for everyone. Most would agree that equality is the best way for the judicial system to operate but it does not necessarily mean that the law applies equally regardless of the situation. For example a person who breaks into a cottage to get a rope to save a drowning person should not receive the same penalty as a person who breaks in to steal a television. A more explicit way to describe how the law is distributed is, treat like cases alike and different cases differently, the law should not discriminate against irrelevant characteristics and justice is impartial to everyone.
