William Wayne Justice

equality. While Anderson calls for the focus to be brought back to integration, she fails to fully acknowledge the importance of recognition as an effective means of achieving social equality. Integration, according to Anderson, is “an imperative of justice” and “a positive good.” She is brought to this conclusion after determining that “if segregation is a fundamental cause…

Foucault's Discipline and Punish is a book based on the history of the penal system. Foucault uses this book to breakdown the process of punishment, what all it contain, and how power can affect punishment. He starts this book off by discussing the issues before the eighteenth century. When the issues were prominent, public execution and corporal punishment was the most commonly used forms of punishments. During this time period punishments were viewed as a ceremonial type of ordeal that…

The idea behind ruling on the bases of superior wisdom is something that sounds very appealing in nature. Especially when the idea revolves around giving power only to those that are willing to be open minded and pursue justice. However, there are problems that co-exist with this idea primarily because there is no division between power. This in return creates only one central power that can’t be properly challenged by the people, which indirectly oppresses them. That is why I completely…

Why does the argument that “anything that is legal is ethical” is insufficient? The argument that ‘anything that is legal is ethical’ is insufficient and complicated topic to discuss, because it contradict the majority of legal systems around the globe. However, it is important to point out that laws cannot satisfy every member of the population, and in order to have a healthy balance within our communities, the government need to find codes of conduct and procedures that benefit most people…

In the article Rough Justice by Alejandro Reyes “No matter how harsh your punishments, you’re not going to get an orderly society unless the culture is in favor of order.” It is important for people to take a stand on issues of justice in society. Three reasons it is important for people to stand on issues of justice in society is that people should stand up to change things that are wrong and turn them right, people represent others who can’t represent themselves, and people should be treated…

Vengeance Won't Help Today many people would love to get revenge for the smallest harm done to them, it may be fun or feels good but it will escalate the problem by the victim wanting to get back to you in an unbalanced way. There for,Vengeance is not a solution that will help a person; instead, it will cause more suffering. The Avenger is characterized as forgiving, which demonstrates that he knows that it’s wrong to hurt others and get revenge.When the Avenger walked into Dun, “it was like a…

moderation and justice in a city, it is important to be reasonable and just at the same time because both moderation and justice go together. The individual has to be moderate and self controlling in order to be just. Without moderation the individual will act unlawful therefore making one unjust. In my opinion it is necessary for the city and individual to be moderate in order to be just. Every city and individual is not just without being moderate. Moderation has a lot to do with justice…

law. It is illegal under the law to have gender bias and not hold every criminal to the same sentencing guidelines. The law was not written to accommodate the race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation of the defendant, but it was written for justice to be served when someone breaks the law. 5. No, if it is illegal that makes it unethical as well. This is his emotional opinion, it’s not doing the wrong thing for the right reason; nor does it require showing compassion. If women break the…

Chapter 5 begins with the sentence, “Let us speak from the point where we digressed” (1095b14). We digressed from the discussion of common opinions about the good and happiness in the middle of the last chapter to discuss the question of the method of our inquiry. Aristotle there supposes that it is “necessary for us, at least, to begin from the things known to us” (1095b3). Thus, in making this inquiry into the good and happiness, we will examine the common opinions about it on the basis of…

Whether “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” or “not easy to send a boy off to die without talking about it first,” in an ideal justice system, all evidence must be examined without reasonable doubt (Lee, 119) (Rose, 12). Accepting a justice system where juries decide upon the verdict, society often conforms itself to the ideologies and prejudices of the people on the jury. Generally, society becomes desensitized to these verdicts and accepts them as impartial even when they’re disproportionately…