Meritocracy's Rise
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Martin Luther King Jr. Social justice can manifest in many forms: physically, mentally, socially, and more. It seems to profoundly impact our lives as it is evident wherever we look. Social justice is synonymous with equal rights, whether socially, commonly, politically, or otherwise. It can take any shape or form as long as it embodies freedom.
From my personal experience, social justice can be as simple as karma. For instance, when you offer your bus seat to a lady or return something a stranger has dropped, you may feel rewarded in the end. Conversely, it can be as harsh as facing punishment for poor behavior at school or getting caught lying to your parents. This perception of social justice is just one of many interpretations.
For an example of karma, in the book “American Born Chinese,” The Monkey King is socially judged by other Gods for being a monkey. The Monkey King fights them and ends up defeating them all. Because of this, he also faces consequences for his actions. The Monkey King, full of ego, challenges the God and creator of time. His punishment, being trapped under a boulder for his arrogance and defiance, serves as a form of social justice.
Social justice also can take other forms such as freedom of rights, whereas people in the past, for example, African Americans, were divided into the lesser group to the “Superior” white men. Having different houses, lifestyles, workplaces, buildings, and so forth. They were also discriminated against and used for unlawful purposes like being slaves. And to that injustice, they protested and fought for their rights, or justice as one might call it.
In conclusion, envisioning a future where social justice makes the world a better place involves imagining a system where actions, both good and bad, are permanently rated. This system would tally and display how good or sweet a person is, not just with a rating, but by showing the accumulated actions that have contributed to that rating. With each person having the option to decide what is good and worthy or not to them. This would be a beneficiary factor that can tell who or what that type of person is or such. This would ensure equal justice and freedom for everyone, highlighting the positive and negative aspects of one’s life. Without complete control. And without discrimination or hate.
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The idea that karma exists seems both superstitious and pretentious. The example of giving your seat up doesn’t display karma via fate but rather your moral compass rewarding you for helpful.
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Using a book as an example of what happens with social injustice, someone fighting against others insulting them, and then getting punished for it, is a good way for the author to show the reader what social justice is to them with an example.
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Removing the “In conclusion” from the first sentence of this paragraph can greatly improve the impact of this paragraph. This paragraph also didn’t connect to the 2nd paragraph about karma. I suggest trying to add a hint of the concept of karma to make this conclusion more connectable.
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I think your view on Social justice is a very interesting concept. Karma being social justice is not a common stance and I think your essay does a good job expanding your view.
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