It lays bare my secret desire to live at a distance from his emotionally messy teenage soul. Having come to this conclusion he quite sensibly replies with his bedroom door open wide and the volume turned up high. And, if that were not trouble enough, suppose my neighbor notices that his son^ music has made me forsake my relatively public hammock for my absolutely private couch, and suppose he feels the snub of snobbery in this change of venue, not the respect that neighbors are due, not the tranquility of peace that justice typically yields.Imagine, in other words, that virtue fails to achieve virtue^ ends. Failure of this sort is hardly uncommon. In the case of justice and its parts, failure tends to follow from the fact that these virtues regard those actions and things that mediate our relations with others, not actions and things in se, but only as due, and thus only as they fall under a certain description, one that fixes the act in its moral species and casts it among those goods that by right belong to another. As any particular action or thing can always be cast under multiple descriptions, it is always possible to disagree about what was done, about its object, end, and circumstances. And of course, an action due another by right but received as neither right nor due can hardly secure the peaceful relations that the just hope to achieve as they act.