I have a question about morality, injustice?

Question

Please give serious answers :)

I have seen people who have done others injustice, who have stolen and who have deceived and many other bad things to others. I have seen them get extremely rich, tens and hundreds of millions of dollars. Most of them have become "honourable" citizens now, who give to charity a small amount of the money they have made using illegal, illegitimate means, trampling indiscriminately on others' rights. They vacation in beautiful places, paradise islands, and have lifestyles that suprpass many people's imagination. They laugh, they have lots of fun, they have all the friends money can buy, and some friends who are also thieves like themselves. You get what I want to say. People do so many bad things, and then what about justice? They don't pay for their wrongs. For all their bad things all they get is riches, nice lives, money, cars, vacations, expensive schools, admiration from poor people to whom they give some, and so on.

Answer 1

There's no such thing as divine justice. There is action, and consequence. The wrong things they do can be addressed by human justice... if others in a position to do so did the right thing. When people like that escape human justice, it's because someone, somewhere, did not act.

"All that is required for evil to win is for good people to do nothing."

Answer 2

Life is certainly not fair. Most of us learn this early in life. There are people who receive stiff sentences for comparatively minor crimes, and some who are unjustly imprisoned who have committed no crime at all. Those wealthy persons you speak of now have the financial means to fight justice even if somehow their crimes were discovered. We've all seen criminals pronounced not guilty because they had some "dream team" of cleaver lawyers. The petty criminal can not afford this.

The other lady answered that evil flourishes because good men do nothing. This is not true. There are many good men and women out there quietly fighting for justice. Most others feel powerless to do anything. There has to be some type of Divine justice. The alternative is much too depressing to be true.

Answer 3

The psalmist Asaph once felt the same way you do. The 73rd Psalm says in part: ( I encourage you to read the entire chapter. It is very faith strengthening.)
For I became envious of the boasters,
[When] I would see the very peace of wicked people.
For they have no deathly pangs;
And their paunch is fat.
They are not even in the trouble of mortal man,
And they are not plagued the same as other men.
Therefore haughtiness has served as a necklace to them;
Violence envelops them as a garment.
Their eye has bulged from fatness;
They have exceeded the imaginations of the heart.
They scoff and speak about what is bad;
About defrauding they speak in an elevated style.

And they have said: “How has God come to know?
And does there exist knowledge in the Most High?”
Look! These are the wicked, who are at ease indefinitely.
They have increased [their] means of maintenance.

How did Asaph deal with these unsettling emotions? Did he deny them? No. He expressed them in prayer to God, as we see in the 73rd Psalm. The turning point for Asaph was a visit to the temple sanctuary. While there, he came to the realization that devotion to God is still the best course. Asaph came to take pride in his God again and strengthened his sense of identity as a servant of God.

Answer 4

Prosperity in this life doesn't always mean prosperity in the next. Outward appearances mean nothing; you cannot fool God for he knows what is in your heart when you are giving to charity. Jesus said it is easier for a rich man to pass through the eye of a needle than enter the kingdom of heaven. For you cannot serve two masters, God and Money. I know it is hard not to look and be a little envious, everyone has a little materialism in them but do not build up treasures for yourself in this world where thieves steal and moths corrupt, instead build up for yourself treasures in heaven where there are no thieves or moths to corrupt.

Answer 5

There is no such thing as justice. I think people rarely get what they really deserve... good or bad.