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The myth of social justice

By Josh Weizel

When collage protesters are protesting
on campus and are chanting the words social justice I've always
wondered what they mean by that? What do intellectuals mean by the
words social justice? What is inherently virtuous about making
justice a social phenomenon? To the college professors and
intellectuals who preach the idea of social justice I am simply
asking ... what do you mean?

The phrase social justice is a totally
meaningless term! Are you saying that if I am against a government
centralized economy I am for Social Injustice? Are you saying that
if I oppose robbing from someone else to give to somebody I favor
social injustice? Would a thief who takes someone's wallet be
justified? How do you define the word justice? What is so just about
the government centralizing the economy. The market is a natural
phenomenon and is part of nature and any restriction on the free
market is against the rules of nature and is therefore unjust. Would
you say a forest is unregulated?. The answer is that a forest is
regulated . Would you agree that when insects protect the soil in the
ground they are keeping the forest in balance? If true the same
applies to a free market system based on competition. Competition
increases incentives for products and services to improve and offer
lower prices because businessmen are competing in a global market.
For example if one energy company offers higher prices the consumer
will go to the energy company that offers lower prices. These are the
opportunities we have in a free market system which is to choose the
company that has the services that best fit our needs. Progressives
argue that big business has too much power and wealth.

Their main argument is that they get
their wealth through exploiting workers and consumers and making it
impossible for other businesses to compete with them . There is a
major flaw with this argument, which is that it fails to address why
some businesses are more successful then others. For example if two
automobile businesses were competing against another and one of the
companies sold more automobiles more efficiently, they would make
more profits then the company who produces fewer cars at a higher
price. In a free market system it is not the businessman that is the
boss who controls and dominates the system, it is the consumer. It is
the consumer that decides what business gives them the best quality
of the goods or service the buy. Socalist belive that the birth of
captlism created new missery and harship replacing the old ones

The fact is, with life before
capitalism a typically family would have nothing to cook with and
often would not have any kitchens or food to cook at all. The truth
is that since the birth of capitalism the population on the earth
has increased significantly and the poor in the present time enjoy a
higher standard of living then even the rich in the 18th century. In
England between the years 1760 and 1830 due to capitalism the
population increased. What does this mean ? This means that
capitalism saved a generation of children.

Capitalism does not create poverty. It
inherited it as Ann Rand observed . The fact is that before
capitalism most people suffered from poverty and it was only in the
nineteenth century when standards of living started to increase .
Progressives socialist and communist argue that before capitalism man
was more spiritual and was more in tone with nature . They detest
capitalism as the cause of mans separation from nature , the
treatment of animals and they detest capitalism as the cause in the
decline in the value of man . The question I have for the
progressive socialist and intellectual is what would they rather
have man live like . Would they rather have us live in caves ? We
would not need to use fossil fuels! We would not need to use any
technology because we would just be in caves . The fact that they
ignore is that the poor in America enjoy higher standards of living
then the poor around the world . How do you define poor? The poor in
America enjoy luxuries that Evan feudal kings did not enjoy . The
fact is nearly 80 % of the poor in America have air conditioning .
In America 93 % of the poor have microwaves. The fact is that almost
three fourths of poor people in America have cars or trucks and
forthy three percent of the poor have internet asses . Some
miserable life huh ? Progressives will argue that the poor do not
have assess to basic necessities such as food and housing but that
is simply misleading . The truth is more people stave and have no
accesses to sheller in socialist and communist societies then in
capt list societies . The truth is 96 % of poor parents stated that
their children were never hungry at any time during the year and 83
% of poor families stated that they had enough to eat and were not
starving . The fact is 82 % of poor adults said they were never
hungry at any time of year do to finical problems . Capitalism has
produced more living space that the average peasant before
capitalism did not have . The truth is that the average American in
poverty has more living space than a person who is not poor in
Sweden France and the United King doom .

Now let me go back to my point about
social justice. What do intellectuals mean by the word social
justice and what makes justice social ? The free market system is the
most just system ever known to mankind . In a free market system
people can chose their own destiny and they have right to their
possessions wall in a socialist or communist society their earnings
belonging to the state or the collective . The argument for social
justice is that the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few
people and theses people are obligated to share their prosperity
with society . The question I would ask is what do they mean by
society? Do they mean be collaborating for their own needs and
joining collations or are they saying society is a collective tribe
where the members of the tribe sacrifice themselves for the good of
the group ? What will theses intellectuals do to achieve their
ultimate ends and how far will they go ? The answer is as far as
necessary to achieve their ideal utopia . don’t take my word for
it let me quote George Bernard Shaw who was a defender of eugenics
and a influential member of the Fabian socialist society in Great
Britain . “ You must all know half a dozen people who are no use
in this world and who are more trouble than they are worth .,” Just
put them there and say sir madeem will you be kind enthuse to
justify your existence . ,” The movement we face is frankly we
are driven to the conclusion that the community have a right to put
a price on the right to live in it ,” If people are fit to live ,
let them live under decent human conditions ,” If they are not fit
to live then kill them in a decent human way” It is any wounder
that some of us are driven to prescribe the lethal chamber as the
solution for the hard cases which are present made the excuse for
dragging all the other cases down to their level , and the only
solution that will create a sense of full social responsibility in
modern populations “ They believe the only way to achieve their
full goal of what they perceive to be fairness and equity is
throughout killing large numbers of people . Besides people did not
build their success the collective built it. John D Rockefeller did
not discover standard oil and give people higher standard of livings
. Entrepreneurs did not discover the railroad which made
transportation easier and more efficient for the most destitute.
Steve Jobs did not discover apple . Is the collective there when
hard working Americans pick themselves up from their boot straps
every mourning in hopes of giving their children a better life .
Where is the collective when a entrepreneur thinks and spends his or
her whole life taking a risk and coming up with a new idea . In
their minds the ends justify the means and anything is justified if
it is for the actions of the collective . Whittier it be guillotines
gulags or gas chambers they are all justified in the name of the
society and to achieve their ideal utopia . The fact is a utopia is
not possible and is only possible by killing masses of people .
Don’t worry its for the children !