Wednesday, April 17, 2013

JUSTICE FOR ALL

Is justice always just?


Respond to the above question.  You MUST use a relevant quote that supports your response.  DO NOT USE "I" IN YOUR RESPONSE.

52 comments:

  1. Justice is not always just. Sometimes Justice must be fought for. As Pascal said,"justice without force is powerless;force without justice is tyrannical.

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  2. No, justice is not always just. Depending on the person or situation people, in general, make some unfair decisions. Malcolm X stated, "I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against." This quote means that no matter what the situation and no matter who the person is or what you have against or for them, your action should be fair to everyone involved. To bad our society today does not live by this concept. People let there emotions and personal feelings against or for things affect their life decisions!

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  3. Sometimes justice is a great thing and also a way of controlling society,but is not always just.Many times the government dose not always do there job and once we try to make justice with our hands we get arrested and that is when justice is not only just,but unjust.

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  4. No justice isnt always just.In this statement it states"An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere".This shows that justice isnt always just because we have had injustices in the past showing we are not always just.

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  5. Justice not always just because for example,people are still racist. There are more black than white people in prisonas well ass people that are innocent.

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  6. "People do not always get what they deserve in this world"~Lemony Snicket.Justice is NOT always just. You hear sometimes how "criminals"have been sent to prison for a crime.Then police somtimes find out years later they were never guilty in the first place.

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  7. Justice is something that is right and fair, but in some cases justice is not fair or right. "The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them." This is an example that some punishments by law, capital punishment, are not always just. Killing someone by law who might of been innocent is a unjust law.

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  8. "Justice doesn't mean the bad guy goes to jail. It just means someone pays for the crime." That is a quote from the movie "Freedom Writers" and it's completely true. Justice is supposed to mean that the culprit is captured and punished for his/her wrongdoings, but that's not always what happens. Sometimes innocent people are summoned to pay for others' bad decisions; Other times, 12 people decide the true bad guy isn't the bad guy at all and they're relieved of all their negative consequences. Nothing is always fair, justice system included.

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  9. In the legal it is often said that justice is blind. we have people in jail who are actually innocent who don't find out until its too late. there lives have been taken away. In Letter from a Birmingham jail king states "There are just laws and there are unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that an unjust law is no law at all... One who breaks an unjust law must do it openly, lovingly...I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law."

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  10. “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    This quote hits it off top.Justice is not always fair. For example, if someone commits a crime. Justice will not be served until the person that committed the crime or did the wrong feel just as much hurt and pain he/she has caused others. Basically someone can hurt another and be punished by going to jail or end up dead. Its like they don't feel anything or not affected by what they did. Therefore justice is not served. What good is life in prison with no parole to a person that does not have a conscious?

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  11. "The injustice done to an individual is
    sometimes of service to the public." Justice isn't always fair, the government finds a reason to convict someone of a crime due to their race, gender, and ethnicity. People won't get the same treatment as everyone because of one small detail. For example, a black man kills someone, he'll probably get the death penalty while a white man would only get a certain amount of years in jail. Justice should be fair treatment to everyone whether their different.

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  12. Justice is not always just! Like Elie Wiesel said ”There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest”. If justice was just to everyone we would not have to protect to earn our justice.

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  13. no, because sometimes the law ignores what is actually happening in the real world.

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  14. Justice isn’t always just. There are many ways and forms of justice, and some people might not agree with that form of justice. So with that being said justice can be just some times but not all that time. Do to different aspects and different mind frames. Like DANIEL DEFOE, stated "Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes." So just can be just but not always!

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  15. No justice is not always just because, laws aren't always fair to the people. Not saying they completely are. But as for most, the laws are unjust for many reasons. Probably because people aren't upright about them and disobey the laws but they should not be all the same for good people too.

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  16. Justice is not always just. Many have witnessed that justice hasn't always been wise or even a tiny bit scrupulous by any matter. Instead of justice building its way up to the right path, it doesn't always turn out that way. This is demonstrated in Kelly Miller's quote, "I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy." Kelly Miller paints a picture of how in reality justice lacks the progress needed to be known as something actually just.

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  17. Justice doesn't mean the bad guy goes to jail, it just means that someone pays for the crime. Justice is not and will never be always just because the innocent sit's in the jail cell while the guilty walks away, in some cases,In the quote "“I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.” Shows that Justice does not goes for all, the innocent will still get sentenced while the guilty will be looked upon.

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  18. “I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.” This quote shows us that in many ways you can never know if somthing is just.Also, that if is not just at one piont,later on that one unjust thing will become be just.

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  19. In few cases will justice be just to the victom, but many times truth or justice isnt brought up to ground. Many get the benifits of justice taken from them based on the color of skin or were you come from. "Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe." -frederick douglass

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  20. No justice is definitely not always just. What the higher authorities believe is just many times isn't. Innocent people suffer injustice on a daily basis. People have different opinions on different situations but justice can be both, just and unjust.

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  21. Justice is sometimes just. I will not say always because during segregation before the Jim crow laws that said it was ok to give separate but equal rights, the black suffered many thing because of injustice laws. As Daniel Defoe once said, "Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes." Meaning justice may only accrue on one side that it protecting or supporting and for the other side its not fair which makes it unjust. Therefore justice is not always just.

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  22. Justice is not always just because some people might want to disobey or obey the law. In henry david thoreau he says "unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them....

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  23. like Malcolm X said"Nobody can give you freedom. nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. if you are a ma,you take it." justice isn't always fair, but when it isn't we got to take it by so tings can change for the best for all.

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  24. the more laws that there are isn't always the best for the people, because people can not always work well with some laws. like Marcus Tullius Cicero said "The more laws, the less justice".

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  25. " If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so... Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." Meaning its your choice weather or not you decide to obey or disobey unjust laws. Justice isn't always just!

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  26. "The more laws, the less justice." Justice is not always just. There are people that are in prison that are innocent.Sometimes people are found guilty for a crime they didn’t do. The court puts innocent people in jail who didn’t commit any crime simply by lack of evidence.

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  27. Justice can be just when is suitable for them, they honestly don't care much what it's fair for the people.Like Once Dennis Wholey said, "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian". Honestly let's not expect something to happen when justice can never be just.

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  28. "...and justice for all", this is part of the pledge of allegiance. Is there really justice for all? Justice seems to be viewed as just in different eyes. Justice, though sometimes just, isn't always just. A reason for saying this is because somethings that are decided may seem just but are not even close to being considered in the category of justice. A thought would be justice being just is determined by ones inner self.

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  29. No, justice is not always just. Nothing is always just or right, the law can be interpreted in different ways, therefore the probability of injustice happening is great. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. said, “This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.” This shows that the law is above justice.

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  30. The quote "justice too long delayed is justice denied" from the Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr. supports the claim that justice is not just. There are many flaws to the government even to this day that may affect the liberty and freedom someone may be well deserved of. There are such things as racism and sexism that still appear in people that may leave them at a close mind. They see something one way and that's how it's mean to be. Therefore justice will not be served. As long as there is right in the world, there will also be things that are wrong and will affect justice being served.

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  31. No,justice isn't always just.Like Benjamin Franklin said," The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice."Justice isn't always fair.The people who decide justice can sometimes make a mistake.In this world nobody's perfect not even the government.

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  32. In what position are we in to judge a person if they will have justice. Justice is'nt always just. It commits to mistakes and send innocent people to jail. There is'nt always justice for all the people thats why god should be incharge of that.

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  33. I dont believe justice is always just.Simply because a lot of people dont get justice for some of there situations.Sometimes people are found guilty for a crime they didnt do."There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice but there must never be a time when we fail to protest"

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  34. No because sometimes justice isn't fair.
    "I know he was just trying to get him off. But they didn't pay that no mind. Still give him death.."

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  35. sburns6 i dont believe justice always just because people that really are guilty be not guilty and people who didn do it be guilty "the world isnt fair just be careful"

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  36. Justice isn't always fair because sometimes people get blamed for something they didn't do and justice is something that has to be fought for..

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  37. "Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct"
    With this in mind, not in every occasion just is always just. Everyone in particular has different perspectives and thoughts about what is fair or not. To someone who might think is fair, another might think its the total opposite.

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  38. justice is not always just for the simpel fact that we are still judge upon our physical features. also its not because of our old generation that mess up our generation. "many of people need justice but most doesn't get it or deserve it but that not suppose to be decied by people feature and physical asspects it should be deiced on the situation".

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  39. Justice is not always just. In some occasions, it is but not in all. There are many innocent people who are serving time, maybe life, in jail for crimes they didn't do. Justice is not always fair/equal. Just as Ellen O' Grady stated, "Crime takes but a moment but justice an eternity."

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  40. Just is never just. People often time get "special treatment" according to who he or she is, of importance or not.

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  41. Justice isn't always just.. Justine has to be fought for at times "Justice isn't free"

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  42. Justice ain't always just, People who are in the ghetto or live in poverty are always left in Unjust situations "One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him".Socrates

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  43. justice is something that is never fair, no matter what things are always going to have a downfall, someone greedy will always do something that is unjust Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer. Julian Casablancas

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  44. “Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Justice is not always just. People have diferent point of views for just. When a person thinks one law is unjust theres, another peron thinking that law is just.

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  45. Justice isnt always just because people in power have their own definition of justice. For instance in a court case inadmissable evidence may help reach a more just and truthful verdict but its inadmissable so it cant produce justice. Therfore, it isnt just.

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  46. No justice isnt always just. Some people get judged just how they look. Many people get put in jail or die for something they didnt do. Not everybody is treated equal.

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  47. Just is not always just there's times where people dont get what they deserve. Theres also other situations where the innocent are being blamed of something they didnt do. Theres also the fact that people have diffrent thoughts and may think something is wrong when its right or right when its wrong.

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  48. Justice is not always just. If justice is set by man it is never going to be just because, man has flaws and man by human nature are not perfect, there for their view of justice is not alwaya just. There is only one true justice set and that is by God who is perfect and is pure justice

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  49. Justice is almost never just. There are times when if you are popular, famous or important, the goverment will forget what you did or just give a small punishment. On the other hand if you are somebody no one knows the goverment will try to use everything they can to give a long punishment and maybe even a deadly punishment.

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  50. francisco saldana 5thApril 29, 2013 at 11:20 AM

    justice is almost never just, Because theres times wen people do some bad they dont get a big punishment as somebody who's there first time getting introuble they get a big punishment.

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  51. Like life isn't always fair,justice isn't always just. The outcome often depends on which ever party has the better lawyer. Meaning the party who has more money.

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  52. No justice is not always just. They always tryna put someone behind bars. Some people do deserve jail like murderers and rapists, but often innocent people will get convicted or in trouble for something they didn't do or for being at the wrong place at the wrong time and taking someone away from their family for something they didn't do or know was gonna go down isn't right.

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