PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
1. I’ve never been a fan of placing a modifier in front of the term ‘justice,’ y’know, as in “social justice,” or “racial justice,”….but if the Left insists on different sorts of justice for different folks/groups…..let’s call it “special justice.”
2. Somehow, with the central requirement being that anyone but a Liberal/Progressive/Democrat is mean, nasty, hateful, there has been taught by the media and government schools that most Americans, especially white ones, are to be described that way, and only big totalitarian government is pure and just, and must be in place always.
“No justice, no peace” and all that.
3. The more intelligent are able to see through the miasma, and ‘cling to our traditions and religion’….
Justice means choice. The choice must be by recourse and devotion to laws made impartially, without respect to individuals, and applied impartially.
Should we extend our discussion to Justice….with mitigating factors of one’s childhood, race, or environment?
What weight to extenuation…his supposed goodness to animals or to his mother...? Where is consideration for the needs of the citizenry for protection?
No where: if a jury is influenced by emotion, dramatics, flattery, ‘compassion,’ then laws, which have been decided based on behaviors and not individuals are cast aside by reference to merit, or fairness, or compassion….all of which are inchoate, subjective and nonquantifiable.
a. It is not the government’s job to determine merit, rather to provide a set of laws that one may expect to be applied without intervention. Laws, under our Constitution, apply not to classes of people, but to classes of actions.
If “fairness” is associated with group-identity, with all of the associated accommodations, law will be reduced to constant petition of government for special and specific exemptions from justice. Law, to be just, but be written and carried out in ignorance of the identity of its claimants.
From “The Secret Knowledge,” by David Mamet
Which brings us to the case of Cyntoia Brown…..victim? or killer?
Next.
2. Somehow, with the central requirement being that anyone but a Liberal/Progressive/Democrat is mean, nasty, hateful, there has been taught by the media and government schools that most Americans, especially white ones, are to be described that way, and only big totalitarian government is pure and just, and must be in place always.
“No justice, no peace” and all that.
3. The more intelligent are able to see through the miasma, and ‘cling to our traditions and religion’….
Justice means choice. The choice must be by recourse and devotion to laws made impartially, without respect to individuals, and applied impartially.
Should we extend our discussion to Justice….with mitigating factors of one’s childhood, race, or environment?
What weight to extenuation…his supposed goodness to animals or to his mother...? Where is consideration for the needs of the citizenry for protection?
No where: if a jury is influenced by emotion, dramatics, flattery, ‘compassion,’ then laws, which have been decided based on behaviors and not individuals are cast aside by reference to merit, or fairness, or compassion….all of which are inchoate, subjective and nonquantifiable.
a. It is not the government’s job to determine merit, rather to provide a set of laws that one may expect to be applied without intervention. Laws, under our Constitution, apply not to classes of people, but to classes of actions.
If “fairness” is associated with group-identity, with all of the associated accommodations, law will be reduced to constant petition of government for special and specific exemptions from justice. Law, to be just, but be written and carried out in ignorance of the identity of its claimants.
From “The Secret Knowledge,” by David Mamet
Which brings us to the case of Cyntoia Brown…..victim? or killer?
Next.