Originally posted by siam
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I think all human beings desire Justice. Unscrupulous people can abuse such desires for their own gains. This is true for non-Muslim majority countries as it is for Muslim majority countries.
One would think that citizens of countries that value human dignity would oppose the practice of torture....Yet, in the U.S. John Yoo and others of the infamous torture memos helped open legal doors for the use of torture....
......and we have Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Renditions, waterboarding.......
One would think that a people who value the principle of equality for all would not allow for an unjust and unequal legal process, yet, in the U.S. a disproportionate number of black people/people of color are jailed...privatized detention centers for juveniles are a business of filling beds for profits regardless of the consequences on the young.....
Systems can be abused---these systems can be those of government, economics, jurisprudence...etc. If the citizens of a country are not vigilant, a system will be abused. When abuse occurs, there might be two types of reactions---either to get rid of that system and build a new one or to reform the existing system in order to align with the (original) ideals. So,.....some people are saying that torture, is un-American, that inequality and injustice go against the spirit of equality that the U.S. was founded on.
It may seem at first that "Justice" is a concept confined to Jurisprudence alone. In my opinion, Justice can be understood as a "way of life"....one that encompasses the micro and the macro. It begins in the home, to treat our Parents and relatives with compassion and justice, then to apply it to our relations with Friends, neighbors, community and to expand it in our expectations of our societies, nations and humanity.
One would think that citizens of countries that value human dignity would oppose the practice of torture....Yet, in the U.S. John Yoo and others of the infamous torture memos helped open legal doors for the use of torture....
......and we have Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Renditions, waterboarding.......
One would think that a people who value the principle of equality for all would not allow for an unjust and unequal legal process, yet, in the U.S. a disproportionate number of black people/people of color are jailed...privatized detention centers for juveniles are a business of filling beds for profits regardless of the consequences on the young.....
Systems can be abused---these systems can be those of government, economics, jurisprudence...etc. If the citizens of a country are not vigilant, a system will be abused. When abuse occurs, there might be two types of reactions---either to get rid of that system and build a new one or to reform the existing system in order to align with the (original) ideals. So,.....some people are saying that torture, is un-American, that inequality and injustice go against the spirit of equality that the U.S. was founded on.
It may seem at first that "Justice" is a concept confined to Jurisprudence alone. In my opinion, Justice can be understood as a "way of life"....one that encompasses the micro and the macro. It begins in the home, to treat our Parents and relatives with compassion and justice, then to apply it to our relations with Friends, neighbors, community and to expand it in our expectations of our societies, nations and humanity.
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