Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Justice before the law
Ok so today in class (as in wednesday) we were talking about, among other things, what is justice and a quote from Plato's book came up and it went something like justice is the advantage of the strongest. Beep beep goes my mind, sudden deja vu comes upon me. Was it not just last week we said the same thing about the law? That it is made by our leaders and we follow it so they can make anything a law they want? Well, what I am asking is are these two things similar or meaning the same thing? I would like to put forth the idea that justice is what we believe to be fair and the law what we have to follow wether we think it is fair or not or we are punished by the leaders. I am now opening this up to my fellow class mates to comment on. Have a good day.
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I agree with your statement that “justice is what we believe to be fair and the law is what we have to follow whether we think it is fair or not.” When I hear the word “justice,” I think of a sentence a criminal gets for breaking the law. For example, when someone is sentenced to life in prison without parole after a first degree murder conviction, that to me is justice. Like when someone says “justice has been served.” The “law” is a set of rules set forth by authoritative figures which all citizens must abide by. In order to create the idea of a “well-balanced society,” the rules must be followed. The consequences that follow a wrongdoing define justice. I’ll conclude my post with a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose, they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.”
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