Justice Chapter 2 Social Justice

The World is both Good and Bad. For every act of good there is around one act of evil. Some of these acts of evil or wrong doing is systematic and is not administered in the means of truth and a sense of Justice. This systematic action of evil can only be countered by Social Justice. Social Justice is a form of Justice that seeks to even the playing field for all people's no matter what immutable characteristics they may possess. This is done by breaking down the privileges some groups might have over others without merit or just cause. This can be done with redistribution of wealth, reparations, equality acts and other forms of breaking down inequitable situations.  
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The Trojans and The Dragons
For 1 Million years The Trojans have been enslaved by The Dragons. Everyday for those million years The Dragons have beaten, worked and impoverish The Trojans and made them to live worse than the dirt. After a million years, The Trojans rise and declare war on The Dragons. After ten years of bloodshed, The Trojans are victorious. What is to come after The Trojan Dragon War? What would be Justice? Would Justice be to enslave The Dragons for one million years?  Perhaps if The Dragons who enslaved The Trojans were to live for those 1 Million years. Unless, The Dragons are immortal and cannot have offspring, then a 1 million years enslavement of All Dragons to live in the next million years would not be Justice. How about reparations? This would be better, especially if the debt is being given by The Dragons who enslaved the Trojans or the government of The Dragons were to distribute the funds to The Trojans. What of the sons and daughters of The Dragons though. Still it would be Justice, for The sons and daughter of The slave holder Dragons would have a higher place than The Trojans due to the million years on enslavement. This would redistribute the wealth that has been stolen from The Trojans and level the playing field. Would there be enough wealth to go around however? Yes, for the wealth generated by The Trojans would still exist and giving those earning to The Trojans would give them what they created in The first place. This is Social Justice. ​

In Today's World, many peoples of poorer nations did not become poor by their own doing. They became poor due to more powerful nations conquering, colonizing and/or exploiting the resources and people's of these less powerful nations. Social Justice would seek to give these peoples back their lands and their stolen resources from those who stole from them. ​

This situation can happen within a nation's own borders as well. By denying some people of property and wealth opportunity, a nation can deprive a group of people of wealth building. This is done by either prevented certain people from making certain financial transactions, such as opening a checking account, or by denying them from living in certain area, red lining. Social Justice would fix this by removing these barriers and giving those the denied people, the wealth and land lost by these wrong doings. ​

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