Why Is Social Justice Wrong

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Imagine a world in which every person is a selfish being that only keeps their own interests in mind and where they have no social responsibility to help a person in need, be it a friend or family member. There are many in modern-day society that face persecution due to their race or gender. Those who support their ideology are the same people who fight for social justice. On the other hand are people who do nothing or support the maltreatment to benefit themselves and those around them. One such person who fought for equality was Hellen Keller whom was blind and deaf, but still received a bachelor or arts degree;fighting for the underprivileged. Hellen Keller asserts, “Until the great mass of people shall be filled with
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For example, in Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, death gives a brief explanation of the ration cards and the feeling portrayed from them, “On the ration cards of Nazi Germany, there was no listing for punishment, but everyone had to take their turn...”(Zusak). Germany has obtained a form of social justice than achieved ever before due to their equality in food and many other things. However, they are really giving their citizens equal suffering because of how they narrow mindedly started a war on their persecution of Jews. Doctor Boak contributes,“Germans estimated that some 763,000 people died during the war from malnutrition and its effects.” The rationing cards didn’t even start at the beginning of the war and yet so many still died because of them. Social justice must be achieved in a peaceful way that shows care towards humanity to prevent needless deaths. On a similar note, Maurie D. Mcinnis writes about “How The Slave Trade Built America” by stating, “The profits from the trade in enslaved people flowed to many places.” The slave trade benefited many white citizens in america at the time. There were only, “a total of 488,070 free blacks living in the United States, about 10 percent of the entire black population.” Almost every white person in America during the time of slavery profited and they all had reasonable wealth, from the merchants who sold clothes to the slave owners who bought them. However, the white people who gained equality took it away from the slaves whom made up most of the population and deaths in America at the time. Sandeep Jauhar explains the lack of social justice in medicine by explaining, “a patient without health insurance would be hard-pressed to find a hospital willing to provide a liver transplant, regardless of the need...Many...physicians...provide treatment that is morally

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