Justice

Well, its time for the next blog again, and this time it’s about justice. Justice.Justice.Justice. What is justice? Justice is doing the right thing. Justice is correctness. Justice, according to the dictionary of dictionary.com is  the quality of being just; righteousness, equitableness, or moral rightness. Or the moral concept of determining what is just and lawful. There are a few different ways of determining justice, but then a few are probably better than another. For an example one would be why someone always wears a hat backwards. They could say, its correct that’s why they do it. But why is it correct? They might say because of authority. They could say that their dad told them that was how you do it so that’s how they’ve always wore their hat, and that may be true. Their dad might have told them to wear their hat like that, but it doesn’t make it correct to wear it that way. The next way to determine justice, if something is correct or not, would be democracy. This is basically like peer pressure. The majority, or a large number of people do it that way, so therefore it is correct to wear my hat backwards. They might say, I wear my hat this way because all my friends wear their hat this way, so it must be right. This is just peer pressure, just because a majority or a lot of people are doing something, that does not make it correct. An example would be, a lot of people smoke or a lot of people drink, but that definitely does not making smoking or drinking right. One more way to decide on justice is tradition. This is good in many cases, but some cases, traditions aren’t very good. There are such things as unreasonable, dumb traditions. If they say, because all my father’s side males wore the hat backwards like this, so I am following the tradition of what they do. This does not necessarily make it correct. It follows their tradition, but who’s to say their father or their grandfather was right. No one. There are some traditions that are dumb and useless too, like a tradition in the American government every single Thanksgiving. They have to bring a turkey to the president, a live turkey. The president then has to use a knife and slaughter the poor animal to make the feast. A thanksgiving feast, and the tradition is to have the president whack off the head of a turkey. This is an example of a tradition that is not really smart and is pretty dumb actually. Just because the government has always done this does not mean that they are right.

                There is one other last way to determine justice. It is someone deciding what is right. We all should have rational minds and we decide what is right or wrong. This is probably not a very good way to determine because although we know a lot, we don’t know everything and we could be wrong. This is not very reliable. The best way of these four to me, would probably be authority. This could fail in ways because the authority is dumb and incompetent, but it would still be correct in most cases.