Social Justice

What is social justice?

everyone is for it,

no one is against it, but

no one knows what it is.

We know that “social”

means interrelationship

of people in society, in

groups large and small.

We are afraid that justice is:

“Bring in the guilty SOB,

so we can give him a fair trial,

then take him out and hang him!”

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said,

in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what

I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."   

"The question is," said Alice, "whether you

can make words mean so many different things.”

And that’s exactly what social justice is:

a concept that the user claims to follow

when only he or she knows what it is

supposed to communicate to the recipient.

It could be like Mrs. Pardiggle in

Dickens’ Bleak House who visited

the poor to aid them and also demonstrate

her superiority to the unfortunate.

Social justice has also been applied

to the redistribution of wealth, which

demonizes the rich, and often showers

undeserved benefits on the masses.

Even worse is the notion that

all persons are entitled to equal results

in their endeavors, rather than equal

opportunity to achieve them.

These and many other definitions

and derivations are covered in

extraordinary length in the article

on social justice in Wikipedia.