righting wrongs
- justiceFair treatment under law
- revengePunishing a wrongdoer
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
- atonementCompensation for wrongdoing
- vindicationClearance of blame
restitution · correction · amends · apology · karma · balance · fairness · retribution · reconciliation · crusade · vigilante · hero · avenger · repentance · forgiveness · compensation · remedy · repair
- redemptionredemption arc, redeemed, forgiven, saved, moral redemption
- atonementpropitiation, substitution, reconciler, forgiveness, sin offering
moral action
righting wrongsvictimizing
Harming or exploiting someone
oppressing · transgressing · sinning · exploiting · doing wrong
response to injustice
righting wrongsturning a blind eye
Intentionally disregarding something obvious
looking the other way · complicity · standing by · doing nothing · willful ignorance
moral trajectory
righting wrongsadding insult to injury
making matters worse · obstruction of justice · piling on · rubbing salt in the wound · standing idly by