Mike Christ
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April 12, 2015, 07:35:31 PM |
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The free way of achieving justice is through disassociation e.g. exile; the offending party must make up for what they did in order to be welcome again, which returns their reputation to a balance in the given society. It's a lot like prison, except they're being kept out of society via refusal to participate with them, rather than in a box in society; this is hard to pull off in a group of millions of people, but not so hard with lots of communities with local governance (which is probably what's going to wind up happening in a voluntaryist environment.) If this individual cannot be located for whatever reason (say, they were anonymous on a website), then helping the victim get back to a state of normality is another form of justice; sometimes this is simply impossible, e.g. loss of loved one, but for many cases it's doable. There was something which happened fairly recently, where an overweight man was laughed at and caught on camera dancing. So then people on twitter found out who the guy was and threw him a dance party so he'd feel accepted for who he is. Not the most serious case of injustice but it was certainly a righted wrong. There was another answer to this injustice: put people who fat-shamed in prison. So essentially, the libertarian approach, and the authoritarian approach; fortunately the libertarian approach won out, the wrong got righted, and nobody gets hurt.
There's never justice in a society with a state, because the state is always on a different moral standard than everyone else; for there ever to be true equality--which seems to be what justice seekers desire--there cannot be a class of higher beings with the power to do that which the individual cannot. By this I mean, for there to be a state, there must first be a monopoly over at least one service within those political lines, usually being the security industry, so the monopoly is enforceable at all. If a state cannot hold a monopoly over anything and is perfectly equal to all other businesses in those political lines, then it's just like any other business, no longer a state. The state itself is an injustice; it physically stops people from doing what it does, then proclaims nobody can do it like they can like there was an option.
There will always be justice so long as there are people who seek it (and trust me, they're everywhere); the only difference between the free and confined is how they pursue this justice. There's the authoritarian approach to justice, which requires the initial injustice, the "necessary evil", followed by violent action, and then there's the libertarian approach to justice, as described above. You don't have to choose between justice and freedom, just between a free approach and a non-free approach; justice-seekers are tireless people who just don't let any injustice go without recourse. Everyone's got a conscious, nobody but those who commit injustices will participate with kin, and since most people--as in like +90% of people--aren't these types of people, it's pretty obvious who wins out in the end. That means a clear majority of healthy, functioning societies, and a tiny portion of miscreants. To be exiled is essentially to be cast into hell; this is incentive enough not to commit injustices, assuming someone understood no other incentives like leading a happy productive life.
Of course, there are some perversions of what justice is, such as, say, communism, where the only way people feel there would be justice is if everyone was on perfectly even ground, in status and property and wealth etc. Even this was a joke because there was still a state who was unequal to everyone else, who were the true owners of these things and people, not the public which they claimed to represent. It's very bizarre, you see forms of this happening even today, primarily in identity politics where some race/gender/whatever wants some form of equality to another, and it's always through an authoritarian approach: others must change for them, not the individual seeking the change (because the other way around is "victim blaming".) I consider this, in itself, a form of injustice, but those who seek it, ironically, are often called social justice warriors. A strange perversion of language but it's a very real, active and sadly popular approach to justice in the world. I'm not sure how these people can be dealt with, except in the way I mentioned prior: disassociation. Essentially, I just refuse to know these people: don't work with them, don't follow them, don't recommend them, avoid avoid avoid. The more people do this, the harder it is for the offending individuals to get ahead in life, which encourages them to change their minds: no force required. It's like a partial exile: they're not completely removed from society but they're definitely more limited than they were before, even if only by a little, but you know what they say about the power of the individual. And there are far worse offenders than these people of course, but those are more obvious cases; nobody wants to know the thief, the murderer, the rapist. All that needs to change is the approach.
Collectivism has long been known to be a complete and total failure, it's just completely unnatural for human beings to live this way; it only occurs in the minds of the imaginative that such things are possible, but the facts are clear that people need to be able to surpass others in order for society to function prosperously (of course, it can still function for some time depending on how much and how fast it can burn through capital, i.e. the reason why the USSR took several decades to collapse instead of collapsing instantly.) Everyone's different, everyone has different talents, some talents are more valued than others, some people are better at certain things than others, and some people are great at allocating resources, and some people are bad at it; the worst case scenario is voting with a ballot who should be in charge of such allocation, because most people do not know who is great at it and who is not--ignorance of the ability primarily--and this is even assuming democracy is perfect and free from corruption. In a market, people give their money away to people who know how to allocate resources properly enough to form a profitable business; the business is profitable because it fulfills a need or desire with as little waste as possible, objective superiority in resource allocation as opposed to the subjective "whoever is most popular" approach. People don't need to understand how to run a business to know which businesses function the best for their needs, because the most efficient businesses have the lowest prices for the best products. It's as perfect a system as mankind can muster thanks to the process of evolution: all the other systems failed miserably, and continue to fail miserably as we see in places like Venezuela and soon to be Greece, which is why the most prosperous societies of today don't use them but this market system instead. Sadly, that initial injustice, of the state, gets in the way of this system to right the supposed wrongs via the authoritarian approach, and the authoritarian justice-seekers continually push us back into this previous era where violence is believed to solve everything. Thankfully, people are continually moving away from this belief.
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