Dear Friends,
It seems to me that just as logic, to be logic, must be consistent else it is spurious, justice, to be justice, must be consistently applied, else it is injustice. This may seem obvious on the surface but is not practiced by the Elite and the unbiased media. In fact the exact opposite of this maxim is true of the actions of these people. The real question is, whether or not you and I want to live in a just society, or an unjust one.
Lets say that an arguer observes that person A is bad because of action D, then it is brought up that person C is also guilty of action D, the original arguer claims however that it doesn’t apply to person C. The original arguer is not using logic but rhetoric or sophistry. If action D is bad it is bad no matter who does it. Logic does not broach transgressions in application else it ceases to be logic.
In the same way, justice must be evenly applied else it ceases to be justice and becomes instead, injustice. Another example in Aristotelian language is; Person A commit’s a crime. The crime costs society 17 million dollars, (to grab a number from the air). The State prosecutor decides that it is not in the public interest to prosecute person A. Person B commit’s a crime that costs society $20.00. That person is then tried and punished to the full extent of the law.
Can we honestly say that it was form justice, to not even prosecute person A, when his or her crime was so much more costly to society than person B‘s? What if, person A is politically favored, is it ok then? What about if person B is from a politically disfavored group? Now lets say that person C is observed trespassing but he or she is in a politically favored group. The police arrest the trespasser and are attacked in the unbiased media and their jobs are endangered by the State governor and the charges dropped. While person B is serving probation for petty larceny. To take the point further, lets say that in a hypothetical society, politically favored people or groups were held to a much different standard than the masses. Can we honestly say that this is justice? Or is it a case of injustice? Moreover is society well served thusly?
Lets also consider why a group of people are allowed to break certain laws that make them second class non citizens. They are tacitly protected, but still illegal, making them subject to all sorts of deprivations. Akin to the old practice of indentured servitude… or slavery. Would that be a just state of affairs? Or an unjust one?
So this illegal group, that are protected in some ways but always in fear of government punishment, is even more afraid of having to follow the law, because of the consequences. These people would be perfect to undermine the capitalist system in a country. They would work for peanuts, no labor law would apply to them, they could be sexually harassed with near impunity, they could be worked at too early an age for societal norms, and they could be murdered with far less risk of punishment. The introduction of such unjust labor practices would totally undermine the wages and employment of those citizens that are held to the labor laws. Would this be a just system or an unjust one? Moreover what would be the motivation for the Elite in a society to do this?
What if a certain group within a society were subject to a totally different set of laws than the rest of the society? There are many cases of this in history. Slavery is one such example, the old dark age laws where Christians prohibited Jews from most business except money lending… many countries in the World today. They all have one thing in common; they are all a form of societal injustice.
You cannot have a group within a society held to different laws than the rest of society. Was it right to have a totally different set of rules that Black people were held to in America? Was that time in US history a just time for Blacks or an unjust one? Would it be just to introduce such a system now? But what if the group effected wasn’t African Americans? Would it be just then? Of course not! The laws of a society MUST apply to EVERYONE uniformly. There can be no exceptions.
Exceptions break the rule. Any society that holds more than one set of laws under its jurisdiction is unjust. Unjust and illogical is not a way to have a healthy society, it is a means to destroy a healthy society, turning it cancerous. The overt injustice poisoning any society, that trips down this primrose path, eventually ending in a gut wrenching death. To argue otherwise is to argue sophically with spurious logic as your lance. It is like saying, “You can’t arrest him for taking a bribe, he is a Congressman!”
