justice...better late than never

I cannot think of a time when the world is complete state of being just. Even if some iniquity is corrected in one part of the world, certainly another part of the world is suffering. Its like squishing a balloon("What is just in this sense, then, is what is proportionate..."1131B), when you press down on one end of the balloon, the air will just travel to other side. Just as it seems impossible to compress the balloon to a perfectly equidistant sphere, it also seems impossible to make things perfectly just. Its frustrating; we so anxiously desire to make things right but the more we try the more apparent our injustices become. Its like were playing a never ending game of wack-a-mole, and it just keeps getting faster over time.

When I think about it this way, why is justice worth the effort? It would be so much easier to just accept things as they are and ignore the problem. However, I don't think this line of reasoning has longevity. Sooner or later, your buttons are going to be pushed and you cannot turn a blind eye anymore. When you lose this capacity to recognize great injustice and respond, I think an essential part of your humanity is dead. People have an innate desire for things to be just even if we don't know what that looks like entirely.

Aristotle says, "Everything, then, must be measured by some standard, as we said before. This standard is in fact demand, which holds everything together". I found this to be an interesting beginning link Aristotelian justice and Christianity's. Injustice is born from wanting more than what is rightfully yours (an overzealous demand in the case of Even), this causes scarcity (banishment from Eden) which only makes injustice more prevalent.