The first time injustice or justice in general ever crossed
my mind was the Casey Anthony trial back in 2011. Casey Anthony was charged
with the murder of her three year-old daughter Caylee back in 2008. The
evidence shows that Anthony had traces of evidence in her car, and she also
didn’t report her daughter missing when she hadn’t seen Caylee in 30 days. All
of the evidence pointed to Casey Anthony, but she was found not guilty. Many
people in the United States posted their outrage on social media. People called
it shocking and compared it to the O.J. Simpson trial. To clarify, I am not
saying that Casey Anthony did kill her daughter. I am just saying that evidence
and media coverage led many people to believe that she was guilty. Therefore,
this mass of people believed that the ruling was injustice – that Caylee did
not receive justice. Applying this to Thrasymachus’ view point, the strongest
would be the defense, judge, and jury. Their advantage is not letting a guilty
woman go as some would say, but it is having the power to decide whether someone
is guilty or not guilty. And this might cause injustice depending on the
situation.
Some facts about the Casey Anthony trial can be found here: http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/04/us/casey-anthony-trial-fast-facts/
And comments about the verdict can be found here: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/casey-anthony-verdict-outrage-spills-online/story?id=14002257
Trial in 2013. George Zimmerman was charged with the murder of Trayvon Martin in 2012. Zimmerman was a part of the neighborhood watch and called the police when he saw Martin walking through the neighborhood from a convenience store. Zimmerman was told by the dispatcher to not follow Martin, but Zimmerman did anyway. From there, the story gets a little fuzzy. The prosecution and defense have two different stories about who attacked who, but in the end, Martin was shot and killed by Zimmerman – self-defense or not. George Zimmerman was then found not guilty, and like the Casey Anthony trial, people were outraged. Unlike the Casey Anthony trial though, one of the main reasons people were outraged was because of racial issues. The media saw the murder as Zimmerman racially profiling Martin, a black teenager. However, the prosecution never brought this up in the case. They merely stated that Zimmerman judged Martin as a punk. Just like the Casey Anthony case, the strongest were the defense, judge, and jury, and the advantage is still the same.
In both cases, the verdict has been seen as injustice, and
that the victims and their families do not get the justice they deserve. To
clarify, I am not saying that people that make up the judges, juries, and
defenses in both cases are morally unjust people. What I am saying is that by
Thrasymachus’ definition of what is justice, these people as the strongest have
made decisions which has caused some people to believe that it is injustice. Therefore,
as the strongest in today’s societies, their decisions can be seen as injustice
whether it be skewed by the media or the evidence or the case in general.
Power of a hungry fool! In today's world justice is used to push forth the moral ideas of the majority regardless of ethnicity, social class, views, etc. Nowadays you may be punished more just for questioning the law. Accordingly, this grant me the right to infer that it's a tool used for control and order. Unfortunately, we are pretty much slaves to the law and the norm of society. As a result, we often give this ''law'' power because we gave up fighting for what's right; we salvaged the concept of survival to the fittest or each to their own, curtailing from the true definition of justice, equality.
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