The History and Justice

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Hello, everyone! I am one of the oldest lurkers here, decided to subscribe for the forums yet again. So here's my fresh topic:

10/12/05
Question:

How we can examine history with the objective of resolving past social injustices w/o creating new ones?

Let’s dissect this sentence, like a biology student dissects the frog. Words:

1) “How?” Examine objectively by the definition stated in the original question. Objectively, meaning we cannot be subjective. One cannot be perfectly non-subjective, because everything is relative; the point of view of a person must be relative to a certain thing, that’s how thing got to be compared. Give me the point of rest, and I’ll move the globe from its place!

2) “We” – People, the society of contemporaries.

4) “Can” – able to? Allowed to, or forced by the society, peoples. To examine.

3) "Examine" - observe and make a conclusion.

5) “History” – is a collection of written “evidence” by the contemporaries of a time period, or a subjective view of current time contemporaries.

6) “With the objective” – with a purpose. Everything must have a purpose in life; life w/o a purpose is just an existence, nothing more, isn’t it? Or is it?

7) “Resolving” – resolving, deciding, trying to figure out, making the only and definite conclusion, even though there’s no just black and white, but also grey line in between…

8) “Past” – the future that passed a generation: today became a yesterday, hundred years ago. Or a century, or ”bazillion” light years ago.

9) “Social” – complements “antisocial”, it’s a negative of black, or is it positive of white?

10) “Injustices” – what is justice thing anyway? Is it a heroine of book name Justice, or Robin Hood? A good guy who helps the poor by robbing rich people, trying to “even” out the wealth among the masses? Or is it a measly thief who has a bright idea of taking (which is “naturally” bad).

11) “W/o creating “ – human race is creative, just as God was. Is or will be. It’s hard to be non-creative, when your nature calls you. The call of nature can be really tough sometimes, especially when you were told not to be creative.

12) “New ones” – new things, something that wasn’t ever invented. Like a wheel, or back to the future machine :-)

Now, for this to make any sense, one has to ask She or he a question – “is the statement true or false” and then think about what is false and what is true. I am talking about any statement, not just the original one, but also the one I “just” made…

Drem