Posted on 02/15/2021 10:49:20 AM PST by Twotone
Many Americans today continue to talk past each other in their discussions of justice.
Progressives often see conservatives as insensitive and lacking compassion for the poor and oppressed. They march and protest in the streets for justice and view conservatives’ lack of protest as signs of their racism and privilege. Meanwhile, many conservatives cannot understand how progressives can see their tactics as just. They watch the protesters loot and burn cities and gape at the lawlessness of these social “justice” warriors.
The reason why there can be no actual conversation between these groups is that they do not share the same definition of justice. No one explains this better than Thomas Sowell in his book, The Quest for Cosmic Justice.
Cosmic Justice vs. Traditional Justice Sowell explains that there are two ruling concepts of justice in America: traditional justice and social or, as he calls it, cosmic justice. Cosmic justice is what someone would choose if they were creating the universe from scratch. For example, if I were to create my own cosmos, I probably would not choose to include racism or poverty. I could eradicate human suffering and pain. Maybe I would ensure total equality of opportunity and outcome. Each of these things have to do with end results; they have nothing to do with the means which would have to bring about these results.
Traditional justice, as Sowell explains, is about, “impartial processes rather than either results or prospects.” Sowell gives the example of a law court. A trial is just if handled in accordance with the law and with an impartial judge and jury, no matter the verdict. A baseball game is fair if it was called according to the rules of the game, no matter which side won.
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What about divine justice?
Because one side is American and the other side is Communist. Shall I describe which is which?
Conservative believe there should be one law and everyone is equally subject to it.
The left wants selective enforcement depending on subjective criteria.
Easy answer.
For Conservatives, it’s “justice”.
For the slime, it’s “just-us”.
Progressives have no interest in or use for justice of any sort. They use their distorted definition of justice as the sheep’s clothing with which to lure dissatisfied people to their side. And, they spend most of their time manufaturing that dissatisfaction in order to gain power. . . to destroy justice in their favor.
Some folks want to follow the law.
Others want to settle some scores.
Just bought it from Amazon in paperback and have it for free on my kindle until it comes tomorrow.
The Quest for Cosmic Justice
Sowell, Thomas
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Conservatives are hunted down by every LEO and Libs are welcomed freely do Burn Baby Burn and murder for the cause!
Great Answer!:
Easy answer:
For Conservatives, it’s “justice”.
For the slime, it’s “just-us”.
posted on 2/15/2021, 10:54:43 AM by Da Coyote
I was just about to post that. 😄🙌
If we had an HONEST justice system, Biden and his kid would both be in jail.
For the democrats, justice is subjective, just as truth and facts are subjective.
Oil and water don’t mix.....trying to get them to is fruitless.
Individual versus group justice
Individual versus group salvation
Pope John Paul versus Pope Frankie
Trump versus Obama
Conservatives view justice based on the truth. Progressives view justice based primarily on a pack of lies. For example, they want to believe that Trevon Martin was murdered and are like an OJ Jury, i.e., a jury that will not even look at the evidence.
Well, that the Left wants Just-Us may have something to do with it.
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Because one side believes justice is necessary for a civilized free society and the other side believes the legal system is just another tool to gain power.
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