Can we ever be rid of unjust actions and behaviour? Why wouldn't God put a stop to these blatant injustices?

Answer 1

I believe that we can stop this kind of behavior in the world; but is starts with ourselves and it is an overwhelming thing to accomplish. It takes masses of people to change the way they see themselves and their effects on other people, and then to consciously change the way they do things. Unfortunately people can’t just change that quickly or that easily and also most people simply don’t want to. Many people see that the world is unfair and unjust and don’t take the time to care about other people. They aren’t even courteous to their neighbors or the person waiting in line next to them anymore, because of something that someone else has done to them. This causes a snowball reaction spanning lifetimes of hate and distrust. We teach it to out children and they in return teach it to their children, without even needing to be harmed by it yet. But if there was a way to create the knowledge of this global impact, we could change its effect and in turn create peace again.

Here is a weak example. You go to get coffee and pay for gas at a local store on your way into work and you’re running late. The attendant lets her friend from behind you in line go ahead of you because, well it’s her friend. He bumps you and spills coffee on you and no one apologizes to you. They stand there and talk for 15 minutes before he leaves. Now you’re late for work and your clothes are a mess. You pay and rush to work fuming, you snap at a co-worker or someone else that day, maybe your wife or kids later when you get home. But why, because you had a bad day. Maybe you mess something up at work, or have a slight car accident, or your boss gets on your case about a minor mistake you made, but it all seems blown out of proportion. Why? Because your days seems to be going down the toilet, and fast. So what do you do about it? You take it out on someone else. Most likely not meaning to, but you snap. 95% of the population is like this; completely overwhelmed! However, the guy behind you in line that you snapped at for no reason will turn around and rob the convenience store after you leave. The co-worker you ranted and raved at because the boss got down on you will go home and beat his wife and kids, because he had a bad day at work. My point is, no one knows, how other people take stress or how they release it. However, if we just say, excuse me and thank you, or I’m sorry a little more often the world can be a nicer place to live in. People, in general, are pleased to be in a polite and friendly environment, sometimes even shocked, but they’re happier. And they are just as likely to pass the good on as they are the bad.

As for what God is doing about our situation; I believe he is doing all he can, but so is everyone else and I’m afraid we are at the point where it’s time to start helping him. Wouldn’t you agree? There is a war of Good against the not so good, and I’m afraid the Good is not winning on our streets.

Answer 2

People need to learn that they are the ones responsible for their actions, not some higher power. When you or somebody else does something that is wrong, it was because you made the choice to do it. And when you do right, it was also because you made that choice. Blaming yours or others' action on higher powers is just escapism.

When a person commits an evil act they are the one who should be held responsible for that act. That includes when somebody does an evil act at the behest of another or because their so-called religion bade them to do so. That was what the Nuremberg trials were all about, personal responsibility under all conditions.

It may make some feel better to pray or to say 'Because my religious book says to do this' but the truth is that good and evil are a part of us and only we can eliminate it from our world. Stop referring to a higher power and start taking responsibility for what you do. Stop expecting some god to control the evil and strife in the world and start taking action on your own by acting the part of the truly good person and expecting those around you to do the same.

Answer 3

Imagine you are writing a story about a father with 6 children. Will the story be about:

A) How children naturally get along? OR
B) The drama of parenting?

Not only is ‘A’ boring, it’s unrealistic. Right?

We all know the answer is ‘B’, because it doesn’t take a degree in Sociobiology to know conflict just a part of life. You can’t really ‘end’ injustice, you can only manage it.

So whose job is it to manage family injustice, to punish the wicked & reward the righteous? Well, that’s the father’s job, isn’t it?

So why doesn’t God put a stop to injustice?

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Because He’s not the father…
.. ……………..He’s the Writer.

Answer 4

The condition for the possibility of virtue is a free act of the will in favor of the good. Virtue cannot be coerced, it must be chosen. As such, there is always the possibility that one might, for a host of reasons, choose what is evil. Further the positioning of our finite nature by other contingent realities means that there exists the possibility that one might opt for an evil which one mistakes for a good. Given all this, injustice is possible in this world. Remove these conditions and not only does virtue become impossible, but love also disappears and what we know of existence becomes radically impoverished.

In terms of God's intervention in the world, that is a very tricky question. It would seem that God's intervention would solve a great deal of our woes, but what form should that intervention take? Striking people dead should they do wrong? Telling us "no" when we are discerning a moral decision through some kind of dramatic revelation? Classical Christian theology asserts that God acts in the world in accord with secondary causes, but these causes will not mitigate our will in terms of making moral choices. In other words, God gives indications of the possibilities inherent in goodness and the limitations imposed by evil, as well as insight into the consequences of our moral decisions, but God does not coerce us, as such coercion would mean that not only would God have to act against our own human nature, but that he would also have to act against his own divine nature.

Answer 5

If God intervened every time someone was unjust, we would be no more than pawns or puppets. Giving us freewill means that he leaves us to make the choices and deal with the consequences. He allows us to choose good or evil. Unfortunately yes many people choose evil. If punishment doesn't catch up to them in this world (jail time, etc) then don't worry, it will get them in the next world (eternal damnation in Hell). It isn't that God doesn't care, it's that he gives us this life as a test. We pass or fail. Yes he is there for us if we pray for help but he only gives us guidance and signs, we still have to do the work for ourselves.

Answer 6

When the tectonic plates crash into each other causing human calamity, they don't worry about Karma, good and bad, evil and riteousness. Life's paths are made up of randon circumstances, some predictable and some not. Most religious people will state that god has a 'bigger' plan for them and humans in general, that we can't know the 'big picture.' Most say there can't be good unless we know or experience the depths of evil.

Is it fair to have predation, disease, deformities, child rape, parasites and evil in the world? If the answer is yes, then with god(s) like that, who need them?

Answer 7

What if everything that happens in this world (mostly evil and unjust) was pre-scripted by God to make us suffer (for some higher purpose)? What if God intentionally designed the fragile, mortal human body, the easily traumatised human mind and a violent environment (both natural and man-made) to facilitate the suffering and injustices in His script?

What if, once we are done suffering our share, God has scripted a blissful and just existence for us in the future?

Answer 8

i haven't figured out why there are unjust actions and behaviors. normally, our actions are of free will, and we as person are consciously acting it. but the instance wherein we act 'unjust' is quite confusing, and i'm sure that if God had wanted to stop these, he wouldn't have let us human have 'free wills'. since we are given 'free wils', we are resposible for our actions, may it be good or bad. subjecting ourselves to unjust actions and behaviors are a product of a variety of external social influences. i think God was never involved in any of these happenings, so he might just be taking his time for us to realize our mistakes, after all, it was us who started. =)

Answer 9

So many righteous ones aren't even aware of the things they do that are blatantly unjust. Maybe God wants them to learn and hopes they will. But yet they don't. They keep passing on their behaviors to the next generation and the next. Why is that?

Answer 10

No because we are innately sinful to the core. (Thanks Adam and Eve!) We will forever fight that in ourselves which is one reason why we NEED God. And, God, being the one who created us with a will of our own, will sit back and wait on us to call upon Him. Not enough people are doing that so evil runs rampant in this world. It won't be until we are in heaven that everything will be 'right'.