One of the most interesting topics that we covered in class
this week was the view that the player Thrasymachus in Plato’s Republic had on
the definition of justice. Thrasymachus
view read, “Justice is the advantage of the strongest.” While his view may not have been the most
popular among the other players, I think it holds very true today. I am taking Business Law this semester, and
when we talked about this quote in class, it called to mind something that we
talked about in that class. In our court
systems, we preach about giving equality to all people that are involved in a
case. However, there are many cases that
money begins to override equality or what may be morally right. It is very clear that not everyone is from
the same class or makes that same amount of money. In some types of court, if you run out of money
to pay a lawyer, you may be out of luck.
So if you put together a good case for yourself, even if you deserve to
be rewarded in the case, once you run out of money the case is over. I think that it is very unjust that this is
how our court system works. I believe
that it should not matter how much money you have when it comes to receiving justice. Another example of this that our teacher in
Business Law used is the difference between the punishment for getting caught
with marijuana or getting caught with cocaine.
Because marijuana is a low price drug, the people who get caught with it
normally are low income people. The
punishment for this is worse than the punishment for getting caught with
cocaine. It is a high price drug, and therefore
the people who do cocaine normally have more money. I do not agree with these two situations and
I would not call it true justice.
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