is justice always going to be blind?

Answer 1

Quite frankly, I don't think justice is blind right now. The United States' court system overwhelmingly favors those who can afford the finest legal representation. Furthermore, our justice system is biased in that white collar/corporate crime often goes unnoticed and/or unabated while other types of crime (e.g. drug dealing, robbery are dealt with much more harshly). One need only remember what happened to Martha Stewart, Enron, etc... to notice that corporations who ruin millions of lives through unfair and unlawful business practices are dealt with much less harshly than your common street criminal.

So is justice blind? Hardly.

Answer 2

The question contains some assumptions that aren't valid. First, what is "justice"? Some people who say "I want justice" are saying "I want to win". If you lose, then that type of justice was blind and inaccurate. If by "justice" you mean, will your claim get a fair hearing from an impartial third party? Sometimes. So if the questions involves the word "always", I would say "No", justice is only sometimes blind. But look carefully at what it is for which you seek "justice". Sometimes, we have already judged and are seeking validation from the Court. If that's the case, then justice is not blind. You have already found it.

Answer 3

Justice has never been, nor will it probably ever be, blind.

Answer 4

Justice never is. It's the people who dispense justice who sometimes are.

Answer 5

The blindfold means justice is IMPARTIAL, not blind.

Answer 6

Yes, but the more money you put on that scale it tips in your favor. It has nothing to do with race,religion, or national origin. It's all about money.

Answer 7

as well as deaf and dumb.

Answer 8

In the world wide scene in actuality it is not blind enough. Many times it sees how much money those who are guilty have, how much influence etc.

If you are talking about the world, under the human mess of governments, it will not even even obscure its partiality by even putting any shades on.

These are some comments made on American justice, and as it is indeed bad in this country , could we imagine how severe it is throughout the world.

*** w77 2/15 p. 101 Justice for All—How? When? ***

Noted Jurist Marvin E. Frankel pointed out:
. . . we cannot ignore the extent to which the behavior of community leaders determines the attitudes of the people toward law and order. We live in an era during which the candor and the integrity of our highest officials—not excluding judges, but not mainly judges—have been drawn into acute question.”

*** w77 2/15 pp. 101-102 Justice for All—How? When? ***
An American lawyer who headed a 175-man legal team defending one person made this revealing observation:
“The first thing you [have] to realize is that the quality of justice in this country is directly related to the pocketbook. . . . It’s poor people who go to jail because poor people cannot get justice in this judicial system. My first week of practicing law, I went over to court to watch a trial, and I saw four poor people get severe sentences for gambling. Then I went to a [lawyers’] association meeting, and they’re all sitting around with [gambling] machines"
Throughout history, we see a constant display of injustices.

Even in Israel of old , who claimed to worship the True God , there was severe corruption among the officials:
(Isaiah 59:1-4) Look! The hand of Jehovah has not become too short that it cannot save, nor has his ear become too heavy that it cannot hear. 2 No, but the very errors of YOU people have become the things causing division between YOU and YOUR God, and YOUR own sins have caused the concealing of [his] face from YOU to keep from hearing. 3 For YOUR own palms have become polluted with blood, and YOUR fingers with error. YOUR own lips have spoken falsehood. YOUR own tongue kept muttering sheer unrighteousness. 4 There is no one calling out in righteousness, and no one at all HAS GONE TO COURT in faithfulness.(my caps) There has been a trusting in unreality, and a speaking of worthlessness. There has been a conceiving of trouble, and a bringing of what is hurtful to birth."
Note vs. 4 and the lack of trust in the judicial system. Human rule will continue, "dominate man to his injury"

It is of interest that when Israel of old wanted to have a form of rulership like the nations around them, Samuel, was a prophet as well as one of Israels. Judges, which included-Samson, Gideon, Barak --When he heard that the Israelites were demanding to have a king over them please note the warning he gave to them and what God advised him to do.
(1 Samuel 8:1-9) 8 And it came about that as soon as Samuel had grown old he made appointments of his sons as judges for Israel. 2 Now the name of his firstborn son happened to be Joel, and the name of his second A·bi´jah; they were judging in Be´er-she´ba. 3 And his sons did not walk in his ways, but they were inclined to follow unjust profit and would accept a bribe and pervert judgment. 4 In time all the older men of Israel collected themselves together and came to Samuel at Ra´mah 5 and said to him: “Look! You yourself have grown old, but your own sons have not walked in your ways. Now do appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.” 6 But the thing was bad in the eyes of Samuel inasmuch as they had said: “Do give us a king to judge us,” and Samuel began to pray to Jehovah. 7 Then Jehovah said to Samuel: “Listen to the voice of the people as respects all that they say to you; for it is not you whom they have rejected, but it is I whom they have rejected from being king over them. 8 In accord with all their doings that they have done from the day of my bringing them up out of Egypt until this day in that they kept leaving me and serving other gods, that is the way they are doing also to you. 9 And now listen to their voice. Only this, that you should solemnly warn them, and you must tell them the rightful due of the king who will reign over them.. . .

(1 Samuel 8:10-18) 10 So Samuel said all the words of Jehovah to the people who were asking a king of him. 11 And he proceeded to say: “This will become the rightful due of the king that will reign over YOU: YOUR sons he will take and put them as his in his chariots and among his horsemen, and some will have to run before his chariots; 12 and to appoint for himself chiefs over thousands and chiefs over fifties, and [some] to do his plowing and to reap his harvest and to make his war instruments and his chariot instruments. 13 And YOUR daughters he will take for ointment mixers and cooks and bakers. 14 And YOUR fields and YOUR vineyards and YOUR olive groves, the best ones, he will take and actually give to his servants. 15 And of YOUR fields of seed and of YOUR vineyards he will take the tenth, and he will certainly give [them] to his court officials and his servants. 16 And YOUR menservants and YOUR maidservants and YOUR best herds, and YOUR asses he will take, and he will have to use them for his work. 17 Of YOUR flocks he will take the tenth, and YOU yourselves will become his as servants. 18 And YOU will certainly cry out in that day by reason of YOUR king, whom YOU have chosen for yourselves, but Jehovah will not answer YOU in that day.”

So direct judgement from God was not good enough for them and they indeed paid a terrible price.
The world is paying a terrible price for rejecting the hope of divine rulership by God , to totally cure the worlds ills.. Jesus taught us to pray for that rulership from above, in the Lord's Prayer--"Thy Kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven" (I certainly am not speaking of any church rulership)

Anyway it is something to think about.