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About Justice on its day
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“In Justice, all virtues are contained”
-Socrates

Whenever I look at calendars of “Day of the - “ celebrations, there are few days I feel strongly about, truth be told. Today precisely is one of those. If I may be honest, it is on the top, along with the International Day of Dance :D

So this is my 4th attempt to write this precise blog post.

These last weeks, for some unexplained reason, I have been questioning the role of activism and all these human rights quest more than ever. This post is an attempt to keep track of these feelings in four years, when I have graduated from philosophy course.

Conversations with random crazy friend
I have a random crazy friend, as everyone does, with who I tend to discuss issues of philosophical or political interest. He’s a philosophy student as well, although older and lives in NY. Y’know, one of those brother-like people.
The reason why I mention him is that 1) he’s drop dead smart, 2) he’s drop dead well-read, and 3) he’s anti-activism, anti-human rights, and anti-a lot of those things that most of us take for granted.
What troubles me is that he’s not one of those typical jerks or emo kids who have nothing to do and therefore just rant and say the system is the suxx0rz. He has more reasons for believing in what he does than almost everyone I know.

TakingITGlobal discussions (which are the reason why I am posting this on TIG as well)
I can’t say I have real friends on there that I didn’t meet outside TIG, so this is not an issue of closeness.
I have discussed random human rights issues there with people from different countries (because I don’t know anything that is more international than TIG, damn it. Not even YouTube). These are people who are generally over 18, and who obviously have access to computers. A lot of their profiles mention high education in social science.
So why is this relevant? Because a lot of them believe that, for example, human rights are redundant and unfair; that women belong at home (literally), and that people of certain religions should not be punished for ignoring human rights papers.

Unfortunate activism
It has become a common practice to see activism in all its forms (internet propaganda, tree-huggers, their presence in mass media) simply corrupt its point. During these last weeks I have seen baseless attacks towards the people who have a base to believe human rights are arbitrary, mocking towards people whose opinions match the one recognized as “retrograde”, the business of “non-profits”... and, above all, the blind acceptation of what is internationally recognized as “justice”.


The outcome of the addition of the three parts is not as pessimistic as it may sound. I have not decided to quit and become a fashion designer or anything like that, but my admiration for activism has indeed downgraded.

What if we’re wrong? What if human rights have indeed no real moral basis and are just the easy agreement of the countries that wrote the Declaration? What if our list of human universals is not as accurate as we thought it was? What if tradition pwns or modern ways? What if our paternalist attitude is wrong, and proselitism for these causes damages more than its absence?

What if our human justice does not match Justice?

I hope that the three people who read this post (I tell you I’m not popular on the netz) will reconsider Justice. I think this day is a good opportunity to rate our conviction. I hope these four years clarify the path for me.

Btw, I dusted off the blog because this post ( http://www.rikomatic.com/blog/2008/07/happy-internati.html ) led me to.



July 17, 2008 | 1:08 PM Comments  0 comments

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