Power in Today's Society

One day as I was scrolling through social media, I found something that caught my eye. The title was “NFL or NBA? “Then it listed these statistics: 36 of its members have been accused of spousal abuse, 7 arrested for fraud, 19 accused of writing bad checks, 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 business, 3 have been in jail for assault, 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit, 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges, 8 have been arrested for shoplifting, 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits and 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year. It turns out it is neither sports league but rather the 535 members of Congress. Even though it is dated, it reminded of Thrasymachus known as the “bad boy” of the Republic and his quote on justice. He said that, “Justice is the advantage of the strongest”. What I don’t understand is how Congress could represent all of those statistics, yet no one even thought to assume it was them. The strongest, in this case is Congress, definitely have the advantage because they are the ones that make the laws and that can then benefit from them. Even when Congressmen do get pulled over, what makes you believe that they don’t then state they on Congress and claim immunity? In today’s world, you can be powerful and rarely pay consequences for breaking the law. And sometimes the only reason the powerful suffer consequences is due to the large amount of evidence stacked against them. Like another thing we talked about in class, most people don’t face jail time for crystalized meth because it is so expensive and if you do get caught, you can more than likely buy your way out of jail. Yet if you get caught with powder meth, you will probably face jail time just because you can’t afford to buy your way out of jail. I agree with Thrasymachus when he states that, “Justice is the advantage of the strongest” because this is very true in today’s society.