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I did not intend to explain how i arrived at this conclusion. I'm just stating my answer to the question.
Do you think the statement "If X is just, then do X" is wrong?
Like army1987 notes, it is an instruction and not a statement. Considering that, I think "if X is just, then do X" is a good imperative to live by, assuming some good definition of justice. I don't think I would describe it as "wrong" or "correct" at this point.
OK. Exactly what you call it is unimportant.
What matters is that it gives justice meaning.
It may be incomplete. Do you have a place for Mercy?
The reason I'm not making distinctions among different moral words, though such distinctions exist in language, is that it seems the only new problem created by these moral words is understanding morality. Once you understand right and wrong, just and unjust can be defined just like you define regular words, even if something can be just but immoral.