Tuesday, September 9, 2008

How much is justice worth?

We get justice in the next world, in this world what we have are lawyers and liars. The real miscarriage of justice is when people are more interested in the rights of criminals than the rights of victims. To do justice is to correct the abuses and stop depriving others of their basic rights or failing to correct matters when those rights are not met. Injustice is either a sin of commission or omission. A court order is only a piece of useless paper if it is not enforced. The role of the court is to deal with injustice once it has already occurred. Unfortunately, liberal concept of justice does not always believe in the possibility of achieving democracy, justice, public good and other ideals through legislative and prescriptive actions. Such is too complex for simpleton human imagination, conception and execution. Procedures limit power to prevent trespassing that includes the rights to ensure the protection especially those of minors. As humanity is only effective as a group, the judgement of good or evil must be the recognition of what is good or bad for the community at large. But knowing which is which is a difficult task and can only be resolved by wisdom which is fundamentally lacking.