2006-09-29 19:51:29 · 6 answers · asked by maysie_dj18 1 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
It probably means that you can prevent doing injustice to someone else, but suffering injustice is beyond your control.
2006-09-29 19:54:42 · answer #1 · answered by phoenixheat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
think of Jesus (though plato obviously wasn't talking about Jeezy). If your enemy slaps you turn your cheek and ask for another... or something. Plato would reason that if one does injustice that they are an unjust person. In his book The Republic he makes the case for what justice is. It would be a good reference. Also, if you create injustice then then you perpetual injustice and will probably continue to do so because you are an unjust person. If you suffer injustice then you are not perpetuating (and hopefully doing something to change the reason why people are unjust to you.)
2006-09-30 03:06:37 · answer #2 · answered by zifmer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think, there's no big deal out there. "Prevention is better than cure" - they always say. How can you reduce the number of sufferer if you don't care about the number of person doing injustice? So, first thing is to stop ourselves doing injustice to other people, the number of sufferer would decrease automatically with it.
2006-09-30 02:57:17 · answer #3 · answered by Firefly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your the person doing injustice than you are a tyrant, but if you suffered an injustice than you would have been the innocent
2006-09-30 03:09:22 · answer #4 · answered by travelin_jalapeno 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With all due respect to Plato this isn't always the case.
He means that people would rather suffer cruelty than be cruel themselves.
2006-09-30 03:24:03 · answer #5 · answered by webby 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its worse to be a mugger than to get mugged.
2006-09-30 03:00:27 · answer #6 · answered by Eric 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋