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What the demand for Justice says about the right way to live

Oghenovo Obrimah, PhD
3 min readJan 22, 2020

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Everyone loves Justice. Justice is arrived at in either of two ways — either because people do what is right, or because civil society remediates what is wrong. If civil society is to remediate what is wrong, it must be the case that what is right is enshrined in beliefs and laws of civil society, meaning what is wrong is representative of deviant behavior.

Suppose, however, that those who administer justice are themselves beholden to deviant behavior. Within this context, all that is required for arrival at injustice is an upholding of every deviant challenge, striking down of every right challenge, and refusal to admit evidence.

So then, wrongs are not remedied, rather are accentuated, resulting in loss of confidence in the judicial system, and absence of arrival at Justice. We arrive then at the inference that, if civil society is to act justly, those who administer justice cannot themselves be beholden to deviant behaviors.

If Justice is to become norm of a society, at the very least, those who administer justice cannot themselves be beholden to deviant behaviors.

Suppose we take the argument further, assume only those who are involved in administration of Justice…

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Oghenovo Obrimah, PhD
Oghenovo Obrimah, PhD

Written by Oghenovo Obrimah, PhD

Educator and Researcher, Believer in Spirituality, Life is serious business, but we all are pilgrims so I write about important stuff with empathy and ethos

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