AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoI wish we as a society would stop pretending that justice is blind, when it very clearly is not.message-squaremessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1123arrow-down113
arrow-up1110arrow-down1message-squareI wish we as a society would stop pretending that justice is blind, when it very clearly is not.AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square25fedilink
minus-squaremasquenox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months ago It’s an ideal in that people should be working towards taking control of the state apparatus People are ALREADY in control of the state apparatus. What we have is, by now, the very predictable result.
minus-squareblaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoWell, beyond that the alternative is to abolish the state, which I’m not against, but the ideal would remain.
minus-squaremasquenox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoThere is no such thing as “blind” justice. What they mean with “blind justice” isn’t justice at all, but rather a blind application of and obedience to law - which liberalism have always (and utterly falsely) conflated with “justice.”
People are ALREADY in control of the state apparatus. What we have is, by now, the very predictable result.
Well, beyond that the alternative is to abolish the state, which I’m not against, but the ideal would remain.
There is no such thing as “blind” justice. What they mean with “blind justice” isn’t justice at all, but rather a blind application of and obedience to law - which liberalism have always (and utterly falsely) conflated with “justice.”