Thomas Sowell - Social Justice Means No Justice

[@UnschoolingCOM]

"Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, “social justice." ~ Thomas Sowell

[@Andershaakenstad]

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[@ovodavi]

This 👏🏻

[@mikearchibald744]

thats insane. Hows your 401 K doing? Got big retirement plans? The owners are Purdue are doing quite well even after being sued for causing an opiate crisis.

[@savemewalter]

same with "pride"

[@Rajaat99]

Thomas Sowell is a national treasure.

[@itsnotatoober]

First copypasta bot right here rajaat99

[@Rajaat99]

@@itsnotatoober I do not understand.

[@TroyBarnett]

Yes he is!

[@somedumbozzie1539]

A global treasure.

[@dr.mikeybee]

He'd be better as buried treasure.

[@cliffordgill9052]

This guy was way ahead of the curve on social issues 😎

[@robertward9533]

No everyone else was just behind incompetency articulation and were hedonist

[@kolbymartin9743]

Still is

[@tyler558806]

Not as much as you think. While Thomas Sowell was a great and brilliant man, MLK and the civil rights movement were just as racist as BLM is today.

[@liquidsnake6879]

"Social Justice" is an ancient term, it's by no means new, it was thrown around during the French Revolution, during the Bolshevik Revolution, during the Nazi era, there is a pamphlet from the nazis that literally says that Hitler wants "social justice" or in German "soziale Gerechtigkeit" and claims that "big jewish capitalism" is their enemy. The Pamphlet is called "Down with Judah" and dates to around 1933

[@williammunny9916]

*_John 10.9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly._* _Jesus Christ loves you. Only Jesus Christ saves. Repent and be saved. God bless you, and the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all._

[@UnschoolingCOM]

“Social justice is an actual impediment to acquiring human capital” ~ Thomas Sowell

[@StressBall5]

Sigma mindset

[@BenJehovah6969]

Pretty sure that's how slave owners view it

[@bookashkin]

@@BenJehovah6969 That's right. Controlled access freeways are awful, because Hitler pioneered them. And Lenin thought electric power for small towns and villages and universal literacy were the schizz. You must promise that red wine never touches your lips, because, yeah, Stalin.

[@travelbyfire8474]

@Joseph Sellers How so?

[@Hunter_Brandon]

⁠@@BenJehovah6969 100% positive that’s not how slaveowners viewed it. I can do it too.

[@heraklit8.170]

6:54 "If there's anything worse than unfairness, it is make-believe fairness." Thomas Sowell 👍👍👍

[@robertkelly3186]

20 years ago, this man was seeing our future, and warning us...

[@MrBeaujangles51]

I was wondering how long ago this interview was? It’s like he had a crystal ball

[@TheBelegur]

@@MrBeaujangles51 Actually I think a case can be made that Dr. Thomas Sowell saw out future fifty years ago.

[@somedumbozzie1539]

@@MrBeaujangles51 It is between his ears a well educated mind.

[@skeletalremains3860]

It is absurd that young people refuse to hear Thomas Sowell simply because he is a conservative. I don't agree with him on everything but understand he has practical solutions to real problems for which the Democratic party has none.

[@imonlyamanandiwilldiesomed4406]

Yea exactly this. I had a discussion with someone earlier and brought up Sowell and their response was to completely dismiss him with "He's a conservative" as if that's some kind of ad hominem. These people are mentally-deranged children.

[@skeletalremains3860]

@@imonlyamanandiwilldiesomed4406 that's what happens when you try to debate with feelings instead of facts. Thomas Sowell is all about the facts!

[@willjensen5595]

I'm 18 and have read something like ten of his books. I don't know how many people my age are doing the same, but I doubt i'm completely alone.

[@skeletalremains3860]

@@willjensen5595 we can only hope that is true! I know many adults that won't watch him simply because he is conservative. It is ridiculous that people would prefer to stay in an echo chamber than to expand their knowledge of any given subject. I'm thankful that you are open-minded.

[@rickmanigault6447]

It has nothing to do with him being conservative. He denies racism in a country built on it.

[@jimjackson4256]

I sure wish we had someone like him running this country.

[@msi8311]

Instead we have “if you don’t vote for me, you ain’t black” as the champion at the helm of our safety and reputation.

[@richman360]

Well the constitution is supposed to run the country, not a person, and that's the problem.

[@kevincosgrove948]

Sowell should’ve been the USA’s 1st black President

[@whitesquirrel4131]

smart people are bright enough to stay well clear of the corrupted circus called government. Those are not leaders, they are puppets, and the wise do not wish to be controlled.

[@paulaharrisbaca4851]

Imagine if he had been the president of "hope and change" instead of the first POC we got rooked into voting for.

[@asaja9714]

Not only a national treasure : a key for western civilisation to think and not sink

[@jb8408]

Social justice, intersectionality, and other critical theorist worldviews, instead of creating a more just and more compassionate world, do just the opposite: They take random data points about a person’s immutable characteristics, distill this down to an intersectional identity, and weigh this against the perceived scales of cosmic justice, all to decide how to treat another person. And the result isn’t a better world. It’s a world where we ignore criminality and the victimization of others, justify intolerance and bigotry, apply different standards based upon race or sex, and ultimately regress society back decades.

[@daveg5857]

Great summary!

[@surfrat8884]

Well said JB

[@SonoftheAllfather]

They don't use data points, random or otherwise. If they used actual quantitative data, then their theories might actually hold some merit. Cultural Marxist (so-called "social justice" or "critical") theory uses no data points whatsoever. They don't conduct studies, take polls, aggregate data, etc. They rarely even use a primary source in any of their literature. They instead use stereotypical assumptions based on a person's identity to come to their "conclusions," the most classic being that all white people (by simple virtue of the fact that we are white) are inherently advantaged, while all black people (by simple virtue of the fact that they're black) are inherently disadvantaged.. The fact that their theories are premised on such intellectually lethargic, grossly illogical, and categorically false assumptions is a true testament to the incredible failure of modern academia and its betrayal of the society that (to some degree) relies on it to be a vestige of reason and truth.

[@Tengu125]

Don't forget postmodernism. It denies the notion of definitions and fact, and regardless of how they frame it, in practice it's because they limit and inconvenience the people who want to have the ability to freely redefine concepts whenever they need to in order to maintain a narrative. In George Orwell's "1984", the people's minds have been conditioned to be completely malleable, changing their opinions and perspectives on a dime in accordance with the latest government update of everything from redefinitions of words to rewriting of history and fabrication of facts from the bottom up. That level of totalitarian control is the wet dream of every authoritarian, which is why we need to treat those who try to redefine, rebrand and restrict language.

[@l.rongardner2150]

Well said.

[@chdao]

There will always be someone smarter than you, better prepared than you, better looking than you, more talented than you, more motivated than you....but we still have to compete with them if we want to get ahead and succeed in life.

[@charlienne]

He is so precise, so articulate and right also very sympathetic.

[@irdial]

What do you mean, "Articulate"? Would you say this about Rand Paul? I'll wager not.

[@YourBestFriendforToday]

@@irdial Is there more to your comment? Or just a pointless accusation?

[@goonofhazard2203]

@@irdial He's much more articulate than Rand Paul.

[@daveg5857]

@@goonofhazard2203 Yep. TS is a genius, probably, at least in my opinion. Whereas I think it's amazing someone of RP's intelligence made it through medical school. Maybe medical school isn't as hard as I thought.

[@LegaciesRetrieval]

@@YourBestFriendforToday there is a lot of pointless accusations going on in these kind of spaces. Funny sometimes.

[@whomikesims]

“Emotions neither prove nor disprove facts. There was a time when any rational adult understood this. But years of dumbed-down education and emphasis on how people 'feel' have left too many people unable to see through this media gimmick.” - THOMAS SOWELL

[@tonylittle8634]

The media has done a phenomenal job at laying smoke 💨 in front of this man. If his teaching was required in AP courses, we wouldn’t have the social BS that we have today.

[@dr.mikeybee]

It's amazing how those who lament over what's prescribed for education are quick to prescribe what benefits themselves most.

[@jomansson5742]

​@@dr.mikeybeethe truth benefits all, whether we want it or not.

[@thekatarnalchemist]

I taught his material in my AP courses this year.

[@2Hesiod]

"Equity is the foe of justice." - Arthur Schopenhauer.

[@patricksullivan7140]

23 yrs later, here we are. This man is brilliant.

[@Fergus-H-MacLeod]

My family has been speaking of Mr. Sowell with great respect and admiration. I can see why.

[@fzqlcs]

❤️ Sowell. He uses logic and knowledge with the precision of a laser. He is proof that if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through the shit, no matter how thick. (apologies to Dylan)

[@dr.mikeybee]

Just because he says what you want to hear doesn't mean he does it well. Frankly I'm appalled by what he pretends to call logic.

[@Merlin3189]

@@dr.mikeybee So lets hear some of your arguments.

[@wiilsharaban]

Way ahead of his time. We are now seeing the coming to fruition of what he warned about on "social justice"

[@IndecisiveConclusion]

The quest for cosmic justice was the first Thomas Sowell book I read. Amazing book!

[@GOBIAS.INDUSTRIES.]

Absolutely insane that this was over 20 years ago... I don't even remember it being that big of an issue, but he's on it!

[@domsjuk]

Interesting to see how poverty and wealth/income inequality weren't an issue according to Sowell 20 years ago. I wonder what his views would have been had he known some of our current statistics.

[@mistermusturd6402]

I’m a Sowell Man

[@Irothelegend1]

💪🏻💪🏻

[@thesisypheanjournal1271]

Somebody gotta make that into a song

[@miketheyunggod2534]

Social justice is not justice. It's giving one group an advantage over all others.

[@Tengu125]

Just like every chapter of the socialist cult. The workers never prosper post-revolution, but the Party or "Benevolent leader" sure does...

[@Sidtube10]

True, but the argument is always that the disadvantaged are being given some advantage for parity. Anyway welfarism is not sustainable. Seems like that the focus should always be on enabling capacity and not handing out welfare. Agree? Or do you actually think even that is not desirable? Each to his own and let extreme inequality prevail?

[@miketheyunggod2534]

@@Sidtube10 calling someone disadvantaged is wrong. No one in America is disadvantaged. Some may have more advantages, but no one is personally disadvantaged. That's just an excuse.

[@miketheyunggod2534]

@James G I laughed when I heard baseball legend Hank Aaron state after Obama won. He said it was nice to see someone elected president not based on his skin color. That was exactly why he won. because of his skin color.

[@joannebutzerin6448]

Thank you. Public appearances by Thomas Sowell are few and far between. I've never seen this one. Excellent!

[@beestoe993]

This is a brilliant synopsis. Any "justice" that does not apply the same rules to everyone is a false dichotomy.

[@daviddaniels100]

The man, the legend, Dr.Sowell

[@ItsTheMunz]

I’ve come to suspect that the reason Sowell doesn’t care to do many interviews is because he’s literally been saying the same things for nearly 50 years and he must feel like it’s nearly hopeless at this point.

[@Sidtube10]

Yes, he has expressed resignation for the inevitable demise of the US.

[@themeadowlarkminutewithpau8184]

He’s also in his 90’s now.

[@thesisypheanjournal1271]

His middle name is Sisyphus

[@stripedcollar335]

Sowell should have been on SCOTUS or President. At the very least, we should be learning all we can from him while we have him. God Bless this man.

[@stddisclaimer8020]

Sowell, in lieu of Clarence Thomas as SCOTUS justice.

[@jonson856]

Or the education system

[@Alwizcaliteach]

@@stddisclaimer8020 Even better in place of Obama

[@stddisclaimer8020]

@@Alwizcaliteach ..Would not go *_that_* far.

[@stddisclaimer8020]

@James G Though not bi-racial, Trump is plainly a hybridized human, sharing more than just a dollop of DNA with the orange orangutan.

[@mena94x3]

This was filmed in 1999?!? I’d have guessed the late 70’s to late 80’s by the film quality and how young he looked. Granted, he doesn’t look 92 now, but there’s no way he was 69 in that video. No. Way. What an incredible man, his books should be required reading in every school.

[@Synthgunner]

I read this book last year, somewhere in the middle let’s just say I was making notes that said something like “America now“ it was referring to historical events in South American and African countries that have attempted legislating this social justice as law, ends in war and chaos every time.

[@rickmanigault6447]

All countries where the US overthrew or interfered

[@chinaexpertdennis6371]

Thomas Thank you for the truth instead of those who hide behind excuses. Reality is a wonderful thing when embraced. Tough Love turns into developing our consciences. Con science comes from the Latin origin which means With Knowing

[@theredrooster7143]

Never heard of this guy before. He’s great.

[@lostinspace699]

Sowell has written So many books

[@edpiv2233]

What a national treasure

[@Yustigh]

Professor Sowell is not a national but a global hero

[@clydewaldo3144]

Rubbish he is a white supremacists supporter that he makes 400 years of black slavery normal everbody went thru it some longer he said he also said Germany fought America over slavery not mentioning Germany's genocide of Namibia in 1904 hundreds of thousands killed by the Reich soldiers I see why he so loved by white folk

[@unpopularmoviereviews3622]

The Quest for Cosmic Justice should be required reading in universities

[@icu4life240]

His books would be banned for being to woke.😢😢

[@Noallegiance]

Amazing what an understanding of history can do.

[@nicholasnafziger8998]

Thomas Sowell is a hero amongst men, in spite of men.

[@ABeautifulHeartBeat]

He always puts things So Well

[@Jonathan-xt6jw]

His point about character assassination taking people past the point of no return intellectually was prophetic.

[@vap0rtranz]

Powerful and personal speech. He's spoken about Harlem before but this is more personal about his classroom experience. "What he called a level playing field is what I called a tilted playing field. Tilted to produce the results that he wanted."

[@robswatosh1934]

Sir, tell them like it is. Right-on man. Keep going.

[@havenbastion]

Justice cannot be social, it can only be individual and bespoke.

[@janedoe5229]

I am an artist and I get my art in galleries. They usually give out prizes for various categories. And of course, the ultimate goal is to sell the paintings. My art is very good, but there are always better artists and worse artists. The other artists usually get the prizes. And other paintings get sold. Is that fair? Shouldn't they give out prizes to every artist? Shouldn't all the paintings be sold? What about my poor ego and all the work I put into learning about and creating the art that I made? In reality: so what. I do my best, someone else gets the prize. Someone else gets their painting sold. That's just how life is. We competed on a level playing ground and I didn't win. Neither did a lot of other artists at the gallery. To give the bad artists the same prize as the best artists would make the prize worthless. To say to a runner, "Since you are slower than the best runner, we will start you closer to the finish line. Is that fair to the fast runners? Is that a true level playing field? And if prizes are given to all the artists, or slow runners are started closer to the finish line, where is the incentive to try harder and improve yourself? Why even try at all? Why not just show up, take the prize and go home?

[@Sidtube10]

Good train of thought. How do feel when you win? How long does that feeling last? What is important in life? Or the purpose of life itself?

[@stevendhanjal3679]

He never halts in amazement of pure brilliance..

[@jeffputman3504]

Justice is defined as each individual receiving what they deserve as a natural result of their own actions. Social "justice" is each individual being rewarded or punished for actions of other people long ago and far away.

[@DarinRWagner]

So "cosmic justice" became "social justice." That makes sense. There is nothing new under the sun.

[@charlesbourgoigne2130]

I admire his brain.

[@figward]

Thanks for sharing and adding value to my day.

[@Michael-hm8cs]

One of the greatest thinkers of the last 100 years!

[@MrLeovdmeer]

Social Justice is only used by people who want to make themselfs feel better and not really help those who need help.

[@Alexandra-xt1vf]

Can you imagine if most people were this smart? 😍

[@taniebania8408]

Such a treasure of a man

[@ReefingDude]

we need many of this guy today

[@bjorntrollowsky4279]

The way how socialists solve inequality problems in practice is not to elevate poor people to the level of rich people by having better education and require higher standards in all aspects of life but to lower these standards to the average poor level and then force the rich to live according to these standards. This is the easy way to solve the issue, whoever stands out too much shall be punished and there are no high standards to meet, basically you are incentivized to be mediocre in everything. This leads socialst societies to ruin since both productiviy and innovations are very restricted so there's no progress, and the best people start to escape into better societies. This is why socialist countries fail in the end.

[@asarechronicles4983]

Great!🎉

[@trollgod7565]

Much love to Thomas

[@eval_is_evil]

Affirmative Action takes out of the equation a most important factor when we strive for success: merit. Immagine winning in a marathon because of some affirmative action equivalent in athletics. It would take out all sense of self accomplishment. Affirmative action is humiliating.

[@fzqlcs]

yes, it starts from a premise of inferiority; an insidious suggestion at minimum.

[@eval_is_evil]

@@fzqlcs yes,exactly

[@DamienMearns]

Hayek pointed out the the world "Social" is a weasel word - it sucks the life out the word that comes next. "Housing" is something you might want to live in, "Social housing" is another way to say unliveable Hell hole

[@skipwindex]

"Once having demonized other people, they really cannot go back to square one and re-examine the evidence, and find out whether what they've been advocating has been producing the results they want or producing totally different results. And so they're locked into the vision. They have too much a stake in it to ever think about doing something different."

[@edpistemic]

When was this/ The mid-'90s? This man saw the future (our present) so, so clearly!

[@Sidtube10]

It says 1999

[@aaroncartoon]

The limits of Hegelian universalism have been just emphasized so articulately. "Cosmic justice" (can American thought ever secularize?) Hyper-localized in the context of American exceptionalism, that's as "cosmic" as it gets.

[@drj602]

Great intelligence meets great honesty causes great dissent.

[@patsirianni7984]

Social Justice is just another word for sharing wealth. Or taking from one and give to another.

[@watchman4todayreloaded192]

"This guy was way ahead of the curve on social issues" “Social justice is an actual impediment to acquiring human capital” ~ Thomas Sowell I can't give comments like these enough likes, so 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍♾

[@seamusdoherty]

Hes actually predicted the future!

[@Tengu125]

Well, he did see the marxist cult in practice from the inside, and unlike those who ignore the truth and get in line, he jumped ship. Anyone of his level of intellect could've predicted the approximate state of politics and society having seen what he did. I'm not trying to take away his thunder, there were people who should have been on his level who *didn't* realise the movement's folly and jump ship before they were swallowed up by the collective, potentially forever blind and deaf to counter-revolutionary ideas.

[@jongrant1215]

The redress- as John Rawls puts it- is to make all outcomes equal through government mandate. These bureaucrats and politicians are arbitrary and capricious and ideologically driven. These same people cannot even decide what a hammer is without issuing an RFQ and an engineering study by some academic. While watching the AFC played I noticed the Cheifs had a social justice statement in their endzone. Really? Cosmic justice, social justice- it is all the same. I think it is unfair that gravity on earth is different than Uranus.

[@zenwarfare70]

So powerful ! Grown up men! You can't beat that !

[@overcoercion590]

So, social justice is taking people who are treated equally under the law and treating the unequally to make them equal?

[@tnndll4294]

*Break Mr. Sowell's videos down into small clips too, so even more people watch them.* Have the big clip like this followed by small quick ones.

[@spencerantoniomarlen-starr3069]

There are other channels already doing that.

[@percys9427]

no where near the views , this vid should have

[@georgerodriguez2987]

There’s no such thing as a level playing field someone always takes advantage of the loopholes

[@williambrandondavis6897]

It’s the only reason life still exists. Eat or be eaten. That’s the way its always been. The day it stops is the day we go extinct.

[@plebjames]

"I'm totally fine with people living in poverty whilst others have more money than they could possibly spend. It's a good thing that the wealth divide is so big, in fact I hope it gets much, much bigger" - Thomas Sowell

[@msimon6808]

When the pile gets big enough it covers everything. Is it better (economically) to live in a rich country or a poor one?

[@plebjames]

@@msimon6808 it's a myth that billionaires are good for the economy. After a certain threshold GDP stops mattering and societal wellbeing correlates closely with economic equality

[@I9s7lam5is-S3tu1pid]

Where was the very first expression of cosmic justice? When Satan lied to humanity at its infancy by saying that they don’t die, but instead become gods themselves.

[@rev.stephena.cakouros948]

I have to believe that a reaction to all this permissiveness is about to break forth.

[@jeronimotamayolopera4834]

THERE WILL NEVER BE JUSTICE.

[@qazdr6]

Tomorrow post a video with just the intro music. I will like that video.

[@briancoon641]

Social justice has been coming almost twenty-three years ago.

[@stevenfrasier5718]

Wino's Veto Great name for a punk band.

[@lsequeira3139]

Sowell speaks plain truth.

[@jolayolka9323]

Expecting less of is disrespectful.

[@GonzaReformado]

What's the name of the theme song at the beginning of this video?

[@Sidtube10]

What an ending: "What Rawls calls as the difference principle, I (Sowell) call, the whino's veto!!!"

[@levellelinadaniels]

🎩AGREED🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹♥️ Thanks4sharing 😁😍🥰

[@memisemyself]

I have been making this argument for years, though not as well as Thomas.

[@monroetruss4737]

Oddly enough he used spelling and much of my life I struggled with not only spelling, but vocabulary and definitions. The only times in school I tried to cheat was spelling. I guess I wasn't a good cheater because I got caught both times. I've had my rear whipped due to spelling grades. The last time a teacher I thought was a tyrant began to tutor me some and I made the honor role. I was in a very strict children's home, and she helped shape my view of life. My mom came back to take me, but as much as I wanted to be with my mom, she should have left me there. My senior she kicked me out because she said she couldn't afford me. The school expelled me because I wasn't living with a legal guardian. I tried to join the service, but I am blind in my right eye I was given a 4F status. Disqualified for military service. People are burning draft cards and I'm disqualified. I didn't know what to do, but I knew I needed a job. I went to work at minimal wage. I did get a GED and had my grade in most subjects was high, but vocabulary was only better than 24%. I was embarrassed. I got a pocket dictionary, started reading more and attempting crossword puzzles. A few years later when I took the SAT my vocabulary was better than 76%, Today I am 71 years old, I continue to read and do crosswords. My spelling has improved but still not perfect

[@1976turkish]

I truly wish that Dr Sowell ran for president in the past. We'd be in a much better place today

[@paulaharrisbaca4851]

Even when he is working off some brief notes, as you can tell, he still speaks marvelously. I wonder if he lost his notes and did as much as he could from his remembered notes which he did at breakfast that morning (I don't know, I'm basing it on his manner. Of course, I've only seen him speaking in one-on-one conversations, so maybe, like me, he gets nervous when speaking before a group. I think I recognize some of the audience, the guy who has Prager U, for example.)

[@williambrandondavis6897]

People that need something from someone else are much more easily manipulated than a person that is self sufficient. It boils down to those that can’t against those that can. If you can not compete with your peers then I guarantee your a liberal. You can give a man a fish and feed him for a day or you can teach him to fish and he can feed himself for a lifetime. Unfortunately in today’s privileged world a large proportion of the population refuses to learn and insists it’s their right to be fed.

[@davidbleiler2140]

Love this!

[@churchtalkunlimited]

Social justice appears more and more like the same old hypocrisy that says "everything is going to be fine, just believe." "Justice of any kind, is a work in progress, at all times." I think.

[@icebirdz]

BRILLIANT…. we are lucky 🍀 this is not banned yet!

[@user-tb7ml8kz7h]

Cosmic justice??? Seriously? What sick mind could come up with this insane idea? Pursuing cosmic justice requires the pursuer to have unlimited power over everyone, as well as unlimited resources, since there always will be someone, who just got unlucky and therefore requires more than the person next to them. It is akin to feeding the poor - the more you feed the poor, the more poor people will come to you to feed them. So my only question is - How much suffering are you willing to both endure and inflict upon others before you understand that pursuing cosmic justice is a mistake?

[@thesisypheanjournal1271]

And you spotted the problem

[@lauriewilson4016]

Yes

[@diamondbolton2944]

May I never be so smart as to forget the basic humanity of others. Understanding that the uniqueness of everyone’s circumstances wether born or not is what makes them one of a kind and indispensable . May I intelligently understand that I know not everything which is a blessing and a curse, a protection from knowing some of the most inhumane and detestable acts, yet a crutch to truly enacting justice and therefore precise change. Never understanding the the miraculous events that would lead to the freedom of enslaved uneducated individuals perceived as “dumb” from the enslavement of perceived smart and superior counterparts. You don’t have to be smart to understand somethings in life.

[@joemahony4198]

ie the handi-capper general as written by Kurt Vonnegut

[@flacjacket]

Rawls essentially recoined the word justice by copy pasting the definition of righteousness over it.

[@greenfrog8871]

the 'standards' by which all are enabled change over time, not too long ago, the ability to stab someone with a sword was a key ability for some (I think Vikings were particularly good at it), that allowed them to prosper at the expense of others, but all were able to take up arms so the same rules applied, so it was fair? But those with limited prospects tended to do poorly. We've moved on a bit from there, orchestrating the exact same outcome for all regardless of ability and effort is a very large waste of energy, but acknowledging that society's benefits need to be shared amongst all of us in a reasonable and appropriate manner is not a new idea; I think the early colonies had stockades for mutual protection? Extreme make-it-all-the-same-no-matter-the-cost vs too-bad-for-you-you-get-nothing are equally unsustainable for any society. We seem to have too many extremists?

[@iainrobertson1690]

When you prefix the word SOCIAL to JUSTICE you nullify the meaning of the very word JUSTICE, by disproportionately prioritising some over others, thus creating more injustice as a result.

[@seanmcnamara1267]

The cream rises to the top, don’t try to fix it with self esteem!

[@deanfeldman2505]

Great

[@Barklord]

❤Liberty, desert and the market Book by Serena Olsaretti❤