THORNY QUESTIONS
What is an appropriate response of enlightened, morally aware individuals to injustice? Under what circumstance does no response to injustice amount to complicity? Does preventable social inequity rise to the level of injustice? How do we classify pervasive, stultifying poverty among hardworking people who are doing their best within an economic system to take care of themselves and their families? Does government have responsibility to provide adequate shelter for citizens who have done and are continuing to try to provide for themselves but are unable to do so? Should people with physical or mental illness who have no insurance and no discretionary money be given help by government agencies? Are there acceptable reasons for government to ignore the plight of hungry citizens? If a CEO’s compensation in a successful company is several hundred times the amount paid in salary to a company worker in one its lowest paid jobs, compensation which doesn’t enable the worker to rise above the poverty level, does the situation rise to the level of injustice? In a democratic society who should decide which citizens are be denied basic rights which are extended to other citizen?
What is an appropriate response of enlightened, morally aware individuals to injustice? Under what circumstance does no response to injustice amount to complicity? Does preventable social inequity rise to the level of injustice? How do we classify pervasive, stultifying poverty among hardworking people who are doing their best within an economic system to take care of themselves and their families? Does government have responsibility to provide adequate shelter for citizens who have done and are continuing to try to provide for themselves but are unable to do so? Should people with physical or mental illness who have no insurance and no discretionary money be given help by government agencies? Are there acceptable reasons for government to ignore the plight of hungry citizens? If a CEO’s compensation in a successful company is several hundred times the amount paid in salary to a company worker in one its lowest paid jobs, compensation which doesn’t enable the worker to rise above the poverty level, does the situation rise to the level of injustice? In a democratic society who should decide which citizens are be denied basic rights which are extended to other citizen?
2 comments:
Leave it to you my friend, to ask what seems at first to be easy questions, questions when I read individually, are very very hard to answer. I wish it were easier.
Injustice, yes!!! Injustice and criminality go hand in hand. The question could very well be, "Does the amount paid to a CEO when compared to that of the worker constitute a crime? Has money been stolen from the worker by the CEO and Bds of Directors?" The answer would again be yes because of what you have said, the salary is not enough to allow that worker to be self-reliant and self-sustaining. He/she is kept in poverty by that crime. Who will pay for the suffering such a crime causes? The Middle East gave us a world shaping faith, perhaps it can teach us about the criminality of privilege.
Bob
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