2013-06-27, 11:53 AM
Sardines Wrote:What principles is our justice system based on. When we arrive at the point where economic compensation is suitable to address the violation of another person's freedom to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness I don't believe that we're operating on a system run by 'principles' in the same vein as your post.
And what exactly would you do? Give them nothing? You can't restore things. You can't unmake the past. Affirmative action is what you get by trying to forcibly swing things in the other direction regardless of merit, and we can see how well that works. We work with what we have, not with what we wish we had.
If all you do is complain that it will never be enough what are you doing that's any better? It's easy to complain and tear things down and demonstrate your superior contempt for things, but life doesn't give a damn what you think of it, it is what it is and what's done is done.
It's not having what you want - It's wanting what you've got.