I started thinking about this fundamental paradox that lies in the depth of human society.
On 1 hand there is the justice advocate people who always blame everyone else, but themselves, for any problem on the world, and they usually have a deep sense of injustice , thinking about starving children and can't tolerate inequality amongst humans, even if, by default God or Nature, depending on your religion, has created us unequal. Well not in the sense that 1 person has more right than other, but in the sense that, we have different skills and different talents, differents strengths and weaknesses, and we can only become better if we
cooperate voluntarly and not try to force eachother to equalize ourselves. A world where everyone is 100% equal would be pretty boring isnt it?
On the other hand, there is the freedom loving people who don't really blame anybody for anything, nor they don't care, they do, but their methodology differs from the other people in the sense that they let eachother choose their life freely without restrictions. But of course the drawback of this is that people will remain inequal here, as they should be, but this will upset the other group.
So my view is that you can't have both, because each group fights for their own rights, and they contradict eachother. Now in a democracy obviously the 1st one wins always because they are always in a majority, but that doesnt mean they are the absolute righteous people.
I`m always for freedom, but i understand that this will not have alot of justice. In a free world alot of criminals will get away with their crimes (not to say that will all this law enforcement nowadays they don't?
They still get away with it even now), but my view is that we should not strive out all of our freedom just because 2-3% of us behaves criminally. This 1 for all and all for 1 collectivist mentality is just naive and stupid.
So there is really 2 stand on this:-
Freedom: a perfectly free society, with unjustice but alot of opportunity to overcome the injustices
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Collectivism: a tyrranical society which treats everyone equally, discourages the talented and dismisses and helps the untalented, where everyone is told to do the "common good" (which apparently doesnt exist), and subjugate their individuality for the sake of their community
- Mixed Society: neither Freedom, nor Social Justice is achieved, so basically its worthless and doesnt satisfy eithe group
(this is the current society in most countries on earth)Now it's worth to point out that "collectivism" is not just leftists (communist, socialist and progressives) but also rightists (nationalists,fascists).
So don't get fooled by the left & right paradigm because it's an illusion, they are all collectivists because they think they have a common good or a society to subjugate themselves to (either the community - proletariat or the "nation" ) which is the same thing painted differently.
While the free-man is free from all of these, atleast inside his head, as society still expects from him to subjugate itself. So I see that freedom is much valuable than justice,
because freedom enables humans to have more opportunities, than justice can ever compensate for their disabilities!Let me know your opinion!