""" you can have a person who believes in justice, believes in equity, who is a person of great rectitude of conduct but he works in a system in which the way to reach important decisions is by lobbying, and lobbying is accepted as an ethical way of establishing the laws of society. What does lobbying mean? Lobbying means that groups who have certain interests of their own not necessarily the interests of society, will put pressure according to their power in order to move society in such a way that they gain or keep their interests. Now, how can this very just person actually be just in that society? What does it mean that he is just? If the structure of decision-making of the society has inherent in its injustice, has inherent in it that those who have more power will get more power because lobbying is considered immoral to do behind closed doors, but if you do it openly, it is legal, it is ethical and it is moral. If that is the moral structure of society what does it mean, then, to say that a person can reach the heights of justice? He can be just within that framework, and in his own dealings with people he can be just, but he cannot go all the way in his justice and in his love for equity. """
Posted on: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 02:20:31 +0000