Is the law justice?

Answer 1

Nope - but it's the best we have.

Answer 2

justice is what gets served when we dont abide by the law; sometimes justice is incorrectly handed down sorriful

Answer 3

Don't know what you are asking?
If you're asking if the law is fair, in my opinion some is and some aren't.
I don't know where you are going with the way this question is written. Need more information to give complete answer to your question.

Answer 4

no, it is just law, it has little to do with justice

Answer 5

Imho, the purpose of law is to create and continue a society. That is not the same thing as justice, which might be construed as a variety of natural law which the laws of society have replaced in all or in part.

Under natural law, every adult has the right to punish evildoers in proportion to their evil. Under the organized laws of most societies, only the society has that right.

Under natural law, any adult who punishes someone s/he has determined did evil accepts the responsibility for what may later prove to have been their error -- that they punished an innocent person. That responsibility can only be that they themselves would then have provably done evil and would then be subject to the same natural law and punishment by every adult.

Under most organized societies' laws, the agents of the society [police and courts] are not personally liable if they error and punish someone who was found guilty even though he is later proved innocent.

Under societal law, individuals give up their 'natural' right to punish evildoers in exchange for personal exemption from responsibility for errors in the detection, proof of, and punishment of evildoers.

The exception to this is when the agent of society is proved to have inflicted punishment on someone s/he knew was innocent, or participated in the detection and proof process against someone when they knew or should have known that they were not impartial [as when they were acting on their racial prejudices]. Then the agent of society is not exempt from personal responsibility but is subject to the judicial processes of society for their actions.

An individual also retains their 'natural' right to punish an evildoer in the person of the agent of a society if and when the society refuses to do so -- or else our Founding Fathers could not have ethically argued that taking up arms against the officers of King George III was permissible.

It is a fine line between ethically permissible rebellion against a society that refuses to hold its agents accountable under law for their actions and sedition or treason against a lawful society whose policies one does not like. The simple allegation, for example, that American society as presently constituted is racist does not constitute ethical grounds under natural law for those who feel they have borne the brunt of that supposed racism to take up arms against America. They must first demonstrate an organized pattern under which America refuses to hold its agents [its agents, not each racist individual] liable for their misdeeds [which has not happened or there would be few or no ex-police in our prisons].

The individual who honestly believes that racism is correct and proper is simply an individual and his free beliefs. However, should that person take action outside the laws of society based on his racism, he makes himself into an evildoer who should then be punished by society even though his belief is sincerely held. Under our society's laws, an individual has given up his right of individual action to the society as a whole and our society has determined that racism is intolerable bigotry. It isn't punishable for existence, but is punishable if it takes action.

Answer 6

i believe the law TRIES to be just, but the guidelines and such are so complicated that sometimes people feel that it is unfair.But i can agree that sometimes things are just to crazy to believe.We should believe in our government because its all we have and if it wasnt here than wed most likely have a dictatorship.

Answer 7

No. Not even close but it's what we have to work with.