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Rhetoric Rants: Justice

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Justice

According to the dictionary, justice is "the upholding of what is just, especially fair treatment and due reward in accordance with honor, standards, or law".  When people think of justice, they think of "bad guys" getting what they deserve.  So if someone where to kill another person, then that person should either be locked up for an inordinate amount of time or themselves be killed.  I don't know about you, but that sounds an awful lot like revenge to me.  Even though there is no real person extracting the revenge, the entities know as society and government are the ones extracting revenge on these individuals.  Does justice really exist?  If someone where to murder your entire family, would putting them in jail get your family back?  Absolutely not!  Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that people who break the rules of society should get off scotch free.  People who break the law are making a decision, a decision that some governing body has deemed dangerous for whatever reason they see fit.  If you look at legal systems across the globe, it seems that justice can be equated to punishment.  Is justice really just a connotation of punishment, or does justice actually exist beyond legality?

P.S.  If there is anything that you guys would like me to discuss, please feel free to make suggestions.  Although I have plenty of things I could divulge on, I'd like to hear some input on what interests you.

15 comments:

  1. good insight!

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  2. I think being in prison for life is more painful than death itself

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  3. I'm more scared of prison than death too.

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  4. yh life time in prison is worse than death bro.

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  5. Justice and revenge are like good and evil, the perspective is all

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  6. in this days the justice is not much only the money can do any things

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  8. the legal system is not about justice. common mistake. previous systems may have been about justice, e.g. common law, but the current system is mostly just about making money for the powers that be. true justice should be tempered by mercy.

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  9. lifetime imprisonment probably isn't as bad nowadays compared to how it used to be in the past though

    What with overcrowding and crap you'd probably be released eventually, especially with good behaviour

    just saying

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  10. Justice=the one with the most power

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  11. you're technically right. the death penalty is a revenge system enacted by the government. it's one thing to be punished with life in jail, but another to be killed as a result of killing calling it 'fair.' it involves emotions, something that should not be present in a democratic justice system.

    another thing wrong with the justice system: people filling up jail cells on counts of marijuana possession, a drug that is unable to cause death. i will never understand why it was propagated as such a bad, evil thing.

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  12. I agree with what thenitefall said! True true, liking the post.

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  13. I think that justice does exist; that's what our courts etc. are for. But that only handles big crimes, small ones like people bothering me every day are what really annoy the hell out of me because there's nothing i can do about it, unless i want to get into trouble myself...

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