The History and Justice

[Taem]

Question:

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

Drem
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When I first read this, the initial thought that came into my mind was WWII and Hitler's suicide - which I feel worked itself out pretty well without creating any social injustices on the surface - but I get the impression you have an idea about the "injustice" for which you speak and I wonder what main event, or culmination thereof, has brought this thought to your attention.

There are so many different kinds of social injustices; it's near impossible to examine ALL of them as a whole because they differ so completely. Take corporate America for example and the seemingly recent endless corruption of CEO's and the poor folks who invested their lifesavings into that companies stock, investors, employees, other businesses who relied on that company - all got screwed so I'd call that a social injustice by your definition of "social". How about slavery? Oppression? Child labor? There are large-scale social injustices such as the oppressive reign of Stallion of Russia (but that is subjective), and small-scale social injustices such as me getting a "lemon" car from a used dealership that got busted and now thousands, including myself, are out of their hard-earned money with no compensation or justice... Moreover, of course there are opinions on the every matter believing in either side of the argument. Something would not be an injustice unless one someone was screwed in someway while another benefited in some way - what is injustice to one is possibility to another, thus different opinions on each subject. There is no real "black" or "white" on any subject.

So, what really is a "social injustice" to you? What example do you base this on? Like I said, I think the WWII ending was just fine, however the "lemon" used car incident doesn’t deserve a national war, nor a 'suicide' to fix the problem. There is no one answer to your question.

EDIT - But I may just be blowing smoke because after rereading your post, I'm not entirely sure what your talking about :lol: .