Creating a World or a Community where everything and everyone is considered equal. We are born different yet we need to be considered equal.
From my friends' presentations about social justice. Many questions filled my mind.
What we are trying to do in Humanity is create the perfect world, where we have a clean slate to do whatever we want. We do not have the common excuse off, it was just handed to us that way.
Since we are created different, I imagine that Humanity will have lots of different people which is evident with the multilingual aspect we have established there.
Social Justice aims for a community where everyone feels equally appreciated, their rights heard and addressed and there is mutual respect among all.
I do support those theories greatly, but when we come to create a unified system, with all those diverse people, then who's laws and regulations would I place. I believe the struggle will be who's equality are we considering. Yest there are certain aspects we all agree on, for instance, right to life, education, gender, race. What got me thinking was the idea that justice is blind.
Thus, it does not matter who you are, it considers everyone the same. Will my distribution of justice actually be equal? A picture that has been posted on facebook for a while talks about how it may be just to give each person a box to stand on but is it equal in benefit to do that?
My other major concern is... equality and freedom, are they on the same side or are they pulling at opposite ends?
The idea is, as Humanity is diverse, then how will there be satisfaction from each party towards the justice and equality the society has place. I do not believe that everyone will see it as fair or as equal distribution over certain rules, which will result in conflict. Will it turn into a vicious circle?
Caroline, is justice blind? Or should justice be blind? Do we see equality in the process or in the product? I love the cartoon on equality and justice because the equality comes about when we are all able to see the game, go to school, access higher education. The process of getting there is the justice: some people will need more help than others and we cannot add advantage to those who are already advantaged, since the goal is to see the game. Lots to think about and discuss in our next class.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, Carol, I was interested to learn that night that social justice had no one specific definition.
ReplyDeleteLife is simple and humans invent ways to complicate it more and more incessantly.
I agree with you othman and Dr. Joy.. I don't believe justice is blind because I personally have a deep belief that even if you were misjudged somehow, the truth will always come out, no matter how much you hide it, or for how long, it will come out.
ReplyDeletethis course made me think a lot of diversity and notice how people perceive me and how i perceive them. I have learned that people will judge me for my perception of diversity even if i am right :D
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