TRUTH & JUSTICE
Re: Re: What is justice?
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Uploaded on 01/17/2008

Justice is often framed in a legal perspective as a set of punitive rules for punishing "wrongdoers", a very limited view and one that doesn't define the total concept.

Justice, I believe, requires the recognition that the entire human race is one family and that all of us are responsible for the welfare of our family. The reality that today, millions of people are starving, homeless and suffering from incredible violence and war is the most obvious sign that we are not aware of what justice is or belive that it isn't possible.

Greed is the greatest obstacle to experiencing justice on our planet home. It has reached immense levels, especially in the corporate world where governments and entire nations are now controlled by this greed. There are some exceptions now, where a few corporate giants are beginning to recognize social responsibility in their work. People need to demand more of this attitude.

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The difficulty with justice is its variability in different spatial and temporal contexts .Today we call the burning of St.Joan a barbarous thing but at the time it took place not many consciences were disturbed. Similarly in the religious law practised in the Moslem countries ,several things which are shocking to another culture take place day in and day out and not many raise heir voices in those places. Does that mean that there is nothing called the absolute justice ,a kind of universal justice which applies to all places and times .The second issue is whether justice applies only to man's relationship with a fellow-human or whether man vs.other fellow-creatures justice is also to be thought of. Since we cannot decide all this we lapse into what we know best-a few cliches about universal brotherhood,humanism,etc.
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