Law supposedly is an objective codification of how the government is to exercise authority. When the law favors (or privileges) any group even a formerly "underprivileged" group it commits injustice. Law, to be law, cannot command injustice. Individuals, on the other hand, behave unjustly all the time. It's an unfortunate drawback of the human condition. We don't have to like it, and I don't, but I don't think it can be eliminated from the human condition. The best that we can do is not support it and insist that the law not reflect or encode such bad premises. What we do not need to do though is establish some arbitrary group memberships and designate them privileged or unprivileged and attempt to make "social justice", an oxymoron, you understand, by granting "compensatory favoritism" to those groups designated "unprivileged." That just perpetuates the whole problem, if not make it worse.
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Re: Privilege or Justice: Pick one.
Date: 2009-03-13 03:11 am (UTC)