A Conversation About Justice Is A State Of Human Equality

A conversation about justice can strike up many questions. Including, can there be justice for all? Is social justice fair or just what is appropriate for a particular situation? Does the majority have more say than the minority? Is the law always just? Can there be equality for the minority without taking privilege from the majority? Some would say democracy is just but there are many problems with the society determining what is just. One is, if the majority is allowed to create the terms of justice the ethics of minorities will usually be treated as less important, or completely ignored. Also, to determine if something is just or unjust one has to evaluate if it encourages or prevents fairness of every individuals’ civil freedoms, not†¦show more content†¦Thoreau states in Civil Disobedience, â€Å"After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule, is not becau se they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice.†(Thoreau Civil Disobedience). Just because it benefits the majority doesn’t make it acceptable King states, â€Å"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.† (Letter from Birmingham). There are many instances in American history where although the mass’s decision was unfair to the minority it was beneficial to the majority. Therefore, the minorities’ needs were overlooked, such as the enslavement of African people to profit their slave master, and the decline of basic rights to own property or vote to women and black to value the white man. Eventually justice was obtained but not without a long struggle. It is not just that one group of people continues to thrive in education, health care, jobs, and the resources to progress while another group remains in poverty, stay hungry, and have poor health care? Even though the privelaged group sees