“Justice” is a term that should be scrapped from the human invented dictionary. Literally, no matter how much impartial it may sound to our hearing senses, when analysed with a piercing, critical and impartial eye it is the most partial thing which is ever devised by humans. Yes! justice is partial. It is not concrete in itself.
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Is justice something divine which befalls living creatures as intended by God? I say so because essence of God is justice. Or is justice that we all expect to be delivered in the form of hell or heaven? Or is justice a manifestation of God’s will expressed through the actions of highly intellectual individuals? Or is justice the autocratic “Nature” which seems to be independent of good and evil? Does justice depend on place, climate or nation? Does justice depend on time, epoch or era? Is justice the level of gratification achieved by a sufferer or is justice the level of discomfort experienced by a criminal? Or is it a perfect blend of the previous two?
Whatever may be justice but it is certain that none of the above accounts for the impartiality of justice. Rather they make it a phenomenon dependent on various factors, factors which in themselves are not concrete and certain. Each of them has evolved as the human mind wanders through the abyss of thoughts. Dichotomy between good and evil has led man to discover justice. Good and evil keep on changing with epochs and with magnitudes of land and hence justice.
Now if God’s will is justice then who is going to fix it. God himself has never told of any specific justice. If religion is justice then do I need to remind you that it has large variety, each of the one claiming to be right in the most profound sense.
Sticking to righteousness and seeking hell and heaven is most comical of all forms of justice. One thinks that abstaining from what is bad can surely leave him on the bed with roses of some mythical world. Keep your eyes closed, your hands bound, your mouth stitched, your legs tied and think of God and you will be in heaven. All good and evil to be decided after we have passed this torment of Earth. Well, then it is foolish to take revenge when it is certain to be delivered. It is useless to stand against oppression because you know you are right and will have your place reserved. And if you decide here, on this foul smelling earth, who is wrong and who is right then what is the point in delivering justice twice. Is it right to punish for a crime twice? Maybe if the one of them is not enough. Which one is not enough? Both because if one would have been enough the other one would not have existed.
Justice through elected men is solely dependent on those men, men who have eaten the same food, breathed the same air, lived in the environment as we have, are as susceptible as we are to vices, lust and greed. Can their inclination to impartiality remain all throughout their life or even same at a particular time among the crowd of the similar ones who deliver justice?
Nature and justice are terms which should not be related even in the remotest of sense. Nature is a dictatorship. Follow it or perish. Nature does not discriminate between good and evil. In case of famine a priest suffers as much as a murderer. Earthquake shakes equally the house of a rich as it would of a poor, without caring who will suffer how much, without estimating how much is enough. So to say that nature is a means of justice is nothing but foolishly naïve.
No particular moment in history or time can claim that justice in its full grandeur walked on its soil because justice itself has changed over the time.
Different nations have different law, each one claiming to be just. While one punishes for a thing, the other treats it normal or one punishes harsher the other with mildness. So which one is true justice? Justice that is appropriate to its crime, appropriate in extent, appropriate in the level of soothingness it induces in the sufferer and the extent of guilt it provides for the criminal. In fact soothingness and guilt are different for each one of us. So either the law must change for each individual to provide the perfect, divine blend of justice or it must admit that justice is partial. And if justice is partial then it is better that we wipe off this word from the dictionary of humanity because such a thing can never be delivered.
