what do you think about inequality?your thoughts on it?

Question

why do you think there is so much injustice in the world?

discuss why increasing inequality is a social problem?

Answer 1

This is a very complicated question and difficult to answer in any depth on this board.

There are a wide variety of reasons for injustice in the world. Most human beings are not open minded. People are raised a certain way and taught beliefs by their families and communities. They only know what they are taught and what they see going on around them. Therefore, if a child is taught intolerance, he will probably grow up to be intolerant. There are many nations in our world that have bred a nation of intolerance. One group dominates another and believes they are right in doing so. They believe they are chosen because that is what they have been taught.

This is more true in third world countries, though there is plenty of of intolerance to go around even here in the US. Terrible injustice in done in the name of God. Religious factions are a huge part of the problem in these countries.

Women are still suffering from inequality in most third world nations. Terrible things are done to them because it is part of their culture.

The caste system in India is another example of injustice in the world. Again, it is a cultural thing and the people don't know any better.

I don't believe that inequality is on the rise. I do believe that our awareness of inequality and injustice in the world is what is increasing, There is so much ignorance in the world and as long as this exists, things will not change. Genocide, suicide bombings, victimizing women and the poor will go on.

This quote gives the answer - I wish we could follow through.

Through our scientific and technological genius, we have made of this world a neighborhood and yet we have not had the ethical commitment to make of it a brotherhood. But somehow, and in some way, we have got to do this. We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured.

John Donne caught it years ago and placed it in graphic terms: "No man is an island entire of itself. Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main." And he goes on toward the end to say, "Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." We must see this, believe this, and live by it if we are to remain awake through a great revolution.

--Martin Luther King, Jr., Remaining Awake Through A Great Revolution

Answer 2

There are two perspectives on this first question: why is there so much injustice in the world.
One, the mechanistic theory, is that life randomly tries stuff out to "see if it works." Whatever works, gets tried out some more. A world of evolution is a world where lots of mistakes are made. Injustice then happens when our will comes into conflict with this process of life exploring its options.

Another perspective is that there is no justice or injustice. Everything happens for a purpose, and somehow serves both the individual soul and the mass of all souls. Necessarily, a finite mind like the human brain would be unable to grasp the purpose-- we may see injustice when in fact, there is only a bunch of actors playing their roles.

Inequality is a social problem? It's a fact of life. People need to make full use of their situations. To me the tragic thing is not that people have different situations. It's when people are underutilized. When a great musician never gets a chance to play because he was born in the wrong side of the street. When a great medical mind ends up just bandaging his friends on the street. Even when a great musician ends up being a bad doctor.


These things happen, yet everybody would be better off if we were careful to squeeze all the value we can out of everybody's talents. If that happened, the world might well be so much better that nobody would care much about some people having it better-- because everybody would have it good enough.

Answer 3

From the beginning of time there has always been inequality and injustice. We are humans and as such arent perfect so things like this continue to exist. I believe that inequality is decreasing and is not a social problem of great significance.