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-square24fedilinkarrow-up1127arrow-down112
arrow-up1115arrow-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-square24fedilink
minus-squaremasquenox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 month 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-up1·1 month 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-down1·1 month 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.”