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02/20 - World Day of Social Justice [1]

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Date: 2023-02-20  

It's World Day of Social Justice. I almost used a picture of Emiliano Zapata who famously said If there is no justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government. This is a UN holiday and it takes a lot of gall for them to speak of social justice when so many of the member states have no taste for it or examples of it whatsoever. Actually, I suspect that social justice isn't an identifiable thing or state but a sort of scale of attainment such as "you can have a minuscule amount of social justice, or an extemely tiny one or a tiny one or, theoretically even larger amounts, though no such have ever been documented in human history except is very small communities.

It is in fact a very strange type of thing. You can see that it is lacking everywhere around you and even far away and, in general, anywhere you look. Yet you cannot really define it except insofar as it is lacking damn near everywhere. People have been trying to define it for ages upon ages and have failed. Arguably it is the situation that would exist if each and every individual acted at all times and in all things according to some perfectionist maxim such as Kant's Categorical Imperative, or an alternative such as striving to generate the maximum benefit for the maximum number of people without causing harm or detriment to any. That's very easy to say but it requires all to have perfect knowledge of everything and its interconnectedness as well as an overabundance of good will. Heh. Suuuure. I suspect that existing in a socioeconomic milieu based entirely on competition, greed, and possessiveness does not portend well for such a situation to come to existence.

All the same, I guess that those of us who would like to see it exist must endeavor at all times to bring it about or at least facilitate it. Good luck to us all.

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