The Nature Of Justice.

Justice. It is a strong, emotive word and we regard the concept behind it as being highly valuable. Justice is most often viewed as a normative concept; it is not something one simply observes. Rather, it is something one seeks to practice in all areas of one`s life. Of course, opinions over what exactly constitutes justice vary by large degrees, but humans are nonetheless more or less unanimously of the opinion that an ideal of justice is something that we should try to attain. It seems that although we might disagree over the implications of this principle, the principle behind it can most accurately be described as `to get what one deserves`. We could also say `to get that which one has earned`, or, `to get that which one is entitles to get`. Now it is for us to consider what it is that people deserve. On what basis do we think people can deserve, earn, or be entitled to anything? When each man is born, he is born with a certain amount of inventory with which to approach the world; this inventory being the faculty of reason which we call his mind, together with any physical capacity he possesses. He applies this inventory to the world in an effort to satisfy his wants and desires. Each man is rewarded for his efforts, his reward taking the form of an income, which he can use to satisfy these desires. In paying others to satisfy his desires, he will at the same time be rewarding them for their efforts. In a society with no economic distortions created by force, each mans income represents the exact value of that man to the society around him, he is no worth a penny more or a penny less. In this way, money is the true measure of a man. Therefore, in a free society it would be accurate to say that there is economic justice. Throughout a man`s life, he must attempt to provide value to his society in order to make a living. The amount of monetary value society places upon that mans effort is necessarily, by definition, exactly what he deserves. The only determining factor in the value of a man`s efforts is the value society puts on those efforts, which is represented in the amount of money that the man earns from the society. Thus, it can be said that the natural effects of the free market ensure economic justice. Since we, in the UK and the US, do not have a free market to ensure justice, let us examine what has become of justice. If we accept that justice is each man getting what he deserves, then there is very little justice to be found. All citizens are subject to one form of taxation or another. Most would agree that some forms of taxation are necessary, proper and beneficial, but those that claim this should never claim that any form of a confiscation of wealth by means of force can be just. As soon as there is any slight variation from the free market function of accurately rewarding value, there is no longer justice. The greater the variation, the greater the injustice. Those same people that argue for small amounts of `absolutely necessary` taxation will argue that civilised society can withstand a slight nationwide injustice, often appealing to some undefined `national interest`. It may be true that a slight injustice of this kind can be tolerated, but what we currently have in the UK and in the US is by no means a slight injustice. In both these countries, what we have instead is a grotesque distortion and manipulation of the concept of justice, which is instead being used to sanction a great deal of injustice. The most obvious example of the perversion of justice is undoubtedly the income tax. The more value you provide to society, the less you are rewarded; the less value you provide to society, the more you are rewarded. A belief in justice is the belief that one should get what one deserves. The income tax, however, is entirely based on the premise that one should not get one deserves. In the case of the income tax, justice has not been forgotten. It has been reversed! A belief in injustice, getting more or less than one deserves, and imposing it by force, has become a central premise for government policy. Of course, in the case of the income tax, it is presented to the public as justice that the successful have to provide for the sake of the less or unsuccessful. It, and all other redistributive policies, are sold to the public as representing a noble and just cause. That the public have been conditioned, or that they have conditioned themselves, to believe this outright fallacy is truly one of the saddest effects of collectivism. It also serves to demonstrate how dangerously gullible and vulnerable the human race is if we can be persuaded that it serves justice for the state to steal at gunpoint from one man to give to another, that evil is good. I believe humans have a sense of justice, primarily, to help us to exist in the world. When our sense of justice tells of something is right, it indicates that that thing is productive, sustainable and compatible with universal natural laws. When we sense injustice, we recognize something unnatural, unsustainable and ultimately compatible with only death. Note that all forms of injustice have some form of force at their core. That which is just, natural and sustainable leads only to destruction and eventually death. The income tax is destructive to society, and once the growing number of failures run out of successes to depend on, society will die. A pure sense of justice, before it has been corrupted by indoctrination and force, is our guide between life and death. For centuries, it did not matter too much what your neighbour thought of justice. You could each approach your own existence with your own philosophies, and let the person with the better values survive, and the people who believe in fallacies and misconceptions would die off, their ideas dying with them. The dependents in society would die out, because there would be no-one around to force the successful individuals to support them. In the last century however, government has filled that power void to become the modern day Robin Hood, backed by irresistible force. Thanks to modern liberal-democracy, you now have to live by your neighbour`s view of justice. You must support failure through your success, or become a failure yourself. It is turns out that his philosophy is unjust, not only will he perish, but in this `one size fit all` society, you will perish with him. There have always existed men with confused philosophies, but never before did they have the power to force their ignorance on an entire nation. This is a new age for the philosophy of justice. In the modern era of big government values, we must all live by the majority understanding of justice. This makes it crucially important which understanding of justice the government supports. One could say that justice, in this macro nationwide one size fits all form, is `too big to fail`. Failure to support true justice, and failure to support principles that support life, it to cause death. I believe that the injustice that is practised in such a widespread fashion in the UK and in the US, the policies in practice that ensure that one does not get that which one deserves, are causing the death of both nations. Only by restoring economic justice, and by allowing the free market to work, can we restore life to our nations.