Justice Prompts

1. 2. Can justice ever be too costly? Social justice is absolutely fundamental: individuals are unlikely to obtain justice within the framework of an unfair system. Is it ever too late for justice to be done? It is easy to see injustice when it occurs elsewhere, more difficult to spot it close to home. Where prejudice is tolerated justice will be hard to find. The Law is needed to protect the innocent: but who will protect the innocent from the Law? Terrible injustices are committed because the Law itself is not above manipulation and abuse. One of the most powerful factors in modern societies is the media. Increasingly, people need more and more protection from the invasion of their privacy and erosion of their rights. Not even the Law is adequate in this respect. The circumstances and events that give rise to injustice are usually varied and complex.

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10. The major reason why people support injustice is ignorance. If everyone understood clearly the true state of affairs injustices would not occur. 11. To reveal injustice does not mean that it will cease. Discuss. 12. Individuals will go to extraordinary lengthseven fight against an entire, communityin order to seek justice. 13. The road to justice is long and arduous. 14. One of the major reasons why women are sometimes denied justice is because of sexism; unlike men, women are judged and found wanting by the courts or community for moral reasons, because they do not conform to a so-called proper feminine role. 15. The search for justice is not always worth the price the individual has to pay. 16. Justice is invariably denied because those who have the power to grant justice are corrupt. 17. One of the most widespread and shocking causes of injustice in the modern world is racism. 18. The Law has been obeyed, but justice has not been done. 19. The aim of the Law should be to protect the interests and rights of the majority. 20. Any individual seeking to right an injustice is invariably changed by his/her, experiences. 21. Justice represents an ideal that is impossible to attain. 22. The administration of justice has become increasingly arbitrary and class based. Those who are poor, black or different in some way are most likely to be singled out for victimisation. 23. If those seeking justice are not wholly supported by the community, their quest can only be in vain. 24. It is the media more than anything else that influences justice in the community. 25. Events which offend community values inevitably result in an unfair judgment being made. 26. An individual should always put his conscience before the law of the land. 27. The old adage of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth should be the cornerstone of the law in a just society. 28. A just society may be judged by the way it treats not the majority but rather the minority groups and individuals within the community. 29. Where there is no clear separation of powers between the judiciary and the legislature the law is often dictated by the politicians whim.