Because justice, unlike guilt, is not about the person who owes it; it is about the people it protects, most of whom you will never meet, many of whom do not yet need protecting but someday will.

A company built to discharge guilt fixes one buried file and considers itself redeemed.

A company built for justice installs the hotline, and the independent audits, and the absolute rule against burying a safety warning for a bonus, and keeps them there for decades, for the sake of a young crew member on some future job site who will one day see something wrong, and speak up, and — because of a system a grieving widow insisted on, on a courthouse step, years before he was hired — actually be heard.

Lianna had refused to let Corbin buy his peace with her family’s tragedy.