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Justice
(I'm feeling blank)
As I sit here trying to do my English work, the thought appears in my mind that there is no justice in the world and never has been. As of this moment I don't even know the definition of justice, but the living definiton of justice which I observed through life is punishment for things that you do wrong like a crime or something like that. I mean justice is basically a consequence for whatever is good or bad. IDK i'm not saying that I do. I honestly don't know the defintion of Justice.
But here's the thing, even though I don't know the definition of justice, I know for a fact that justice has never existed. Why is that you may ask? Because justice is something that's supposed to be fair for all or whatever.... something like that. Equal punishment for crimes stuff like that. That's where we go wrong. Punishment. Because punishments are never just. Punishments resulted from human emotion and they evolved over the years to different forms and variations. Punishments such as be heading, imprisonment, labor as a result of debt, none of these are just punishments. I mean they may seem as such from a personal perspective, but from an impersonal un-biased perspective they are not no matter what the crime is. Including murder. I mean don't get me wrong here I am not condoning murder or any crimes. I am just saying the punishments never have and never will match the crime. It's just strange to me the fact that we will put people in jail, kill them, or what have u as a result of them killing or doing whatever. Is it just to take away someone's life be it though jail time or death because they did something? It's not for us to decide. We are all equal and we cannot say that one person deserves to live or die, even if that person has killed another person. I'm not saying that thes people should be able to do whatever they please, I am just saying that justice is not being served as a result of crimes. The fact is that we cannot justify or explain the actions of others ourselves and it's no where in the human capability to be able to read minds and know exactly what was going on with a person at the time. We are reactionary beings and even though justice is supposed to be blind, it has eyes, and not only does it have eyes it has everythign else a human being has and probably more. Justice is a concept in which we cannot honestly grasp but we can lie to ourselves and say that it has been served even though it never has.
I think for the better part of this blog I have been explaining and I haven't been getting specific. Here's an example of what I am talking about: someone kills a family member of yours, a young family member.Is it the "just" thing for them to recieve some kind of punishment for their crimes? Maybe. Can we decide what kind of punishment best fits their crime? No. I mean the death penalty "Justice" is served, the killer's dead. But what does that do for you? does that make you happy that another person is dead along with ur family member? Are u happy that the person is feeling the pain ur sibling felt? What next? Your family member isn't coming back and another person is dead. As human beings we cannot decide who can live and who can die. It is not in our capacity to know when or how people should die. The same principle applies for prison. We practically take away another person's life because of something that happened. Ask the same questions. The truth is it is not in our capacity to be just and justice is just a pipe dream.
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