Hey readers,
Basically this blogs' purpose is to state my opinions on specific aspects in our society and the idea of Justice. I might take a specific case and look at it as best I can and see whether Justice was truly served, partially served, or failed entirely. Sometimes I'm sure I'll surprise any reader what my thought is on the case.
For a quick example. There was a story some time ago about a Lesbian girl who was discriminated against by the administrators of her school. She ultimately got $35,000 dollars in the settlement (on top of them paying for her lawyer's fees). Everyone seemed to be screaming "JUSTICE WAS SERVED!!" Well, I looked at it and I thought about the case. I think it's a shame she was discriminated against, but was Justice truly served? The answer I found was "no." While she indeed received money, I find it naive and sickening that the American mindset seems to equate compensation and Justice with money first. Being paid money is not equivalent to Justice being served.
Furthermore, the money paid was taxpayer's money and that only means people who were even on her side had to pay her. People who did no harm to her or didn't discriminate had to pay her. People who didn't even KNOW she existed had to pay her. That's not true justice. To punish and force the innocent to compensate for another person's ordeal.
It doesn't end there. The money used isn't going to be taken out of the pay of the administrators who chose to discriminate, but from other areas of the school. There's no doubt about that. That means the students who didn't know her or maybe even liked her suffer. That's money used for teaching supplies or food or whatever is needed. That's still not justice.
And about the administrators? They're still there as far as I can tell. I haven't found a single source stating they were fired from their position because of this incident. Sounds like leaving the people in the same position where they discriminated before isn't really justice either.
So how the hell is this justice? It isn't. People see a poor girl who was discriminated against getting "compensation" (it isn't real compensation, but I'll get into that in another post) and praise it, but then they ignore how she's being compensated. They ignore who is paying her. They ignore how it'll effect the area. What's truly disgusting to me are the people who think it's ok she's being paid from the money of the people and "the people are at fault for voting the person in office who appointed those that lead to the administrators and their job." This ignores that there are those who
didn't vote for that person and yet
still has to suffer the consequences and pay out of
their tax dollar to this girl. It's, quite frankly, not justice and very much, as Penn and Teller say, bullshit.
Does this mean nothing should have happened then? No. The school should have paid for her lawyer fees, no doubt. The administrators should have been fired. Finally, the school should be more heavily regulated to watch for any discriminatory action. By the way, the money used to pay her lawyer in my results? That should come from the administrators who chose to discriminate. It could, if we choose, come from the tax payers at first, but those people should then be forced to pay back in heavier taxes or in some direct payment method to the people. But, it would probably be easier if they had to pay from the start and not the people.
But no, that case wasn't true justice at work. It's good that such bigotry was made public and it
might help to keep discrimination from happening in at least that same school, but no real victory was won. Merely a girl got paid $35,000 of the people's money (on top of her lawyer's fees) and nothing was achieved truly for certain.
Anyways, that's what this blog will be about. I want to state what I think justice is while at the same time wondering why it might be justice, what justice truly is as well as potential laws and what I think should be laws and why or why some laws should be changed in another way or all together dropped. Hopefully I can write at a semi-professional level (it is not my area of expertise) and provide some interesting thoughts and opinions while also having a little humor here and there if my wit prevails.
