http://www.fancast.com/tv/Arrested-Development/92942/569801696/Justice-is-Blind/videos
A link to Arrested Development, “Justice is Blind” episode, hilarious spin on the idea of justice.
Selfishness is Blind. Gandhi
Justice is Blind.
Via transitive property, selfishness is justice.
At times, I wonder whether there is a sense of justice that pervades the universe. A justice that essentially transcends, envelops and protects the totality of human kind. I tend to have this view of human life as the center of justice because of its “supposed” attachment to reason, something that seems to be our very “blessing” and “curse” at the same time in a figuratively religious sense of speaking. However, as the scale becomes larger, justice almost becomes synonymous with truth, God, consciousness itself, making justice seem like the natural progression of existence and simply that. In this sense, justice has an objective beauty, a linking to the universal archetype oftened mentioned by Plato and probably numerous other philosophers, artists and visionaries alike. In my mind, envisioning justice on such a level unifies all the complexities of morality, ethics, and philosophical standards. They become insignificant to the true course of things, life as it was meant to be, evolution.
The difficulty is once you beginning narrowing the scope of justice, more and more problems start arising. Subjectivity takes its course as increasing factions arise. Justice becomes equivalent to personal gain, subjective ambitions, greed, and human nature, which can be very vague definitions regarding the complexities of the human mind. Justice becomes personal, essentially one person’s justice versus another’s. Establishing a counter balance of good vs evil (Gandhi vs Hitler), you get to see raw examples of the potential of man through human history. By the way, these are examples of mortal men, not men defined through the space of “fact and fiction” or mythological uncertainties. Although we might never know the men as they truly were and their intentions, human history has tended to place bias on the “victors” and social conformity over objective analysis.
I argue the truth is that justice on this level is really not that. Justice becomes a metaphorical balance for subjective truths, that evidently change as times and traditions do. It’s difficult to build and even more so maintain a system that does not take advantage of the individual or minority for the majority. Justice equates itself more equally with pushing the status quo. Justice on this level becomes another barrier to self-enlightenment. Ironically, maybe this form of justice may be the very tool necessary for human transcendance, another stepping block for the evolution of mankind consciously. I just loathe how people place personal twists on justice. In this way, justice takes on a totally different meaning altogether.
