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Think first

Correct — with a slightly superhero-cartoon register.

What a Japanese person actually thinks

Reads a bit like a children's tokusatsu show, where the hero shouts about 正義 before transforming. Sincere but a little four-colour.

Meaning

Literally
correct + righteousness
Actually
Justice, righteousness.

Scores

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Common word.

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Fine characters. 正義の味方 ('ally of justice') is such a stock phrase that the word is hard to hear straight.

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    righteousness
    Drop the 正 and it stops being a cartoon and becomes a bushidō virtue. Same idea, much better register.

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Orientation: vertical

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