marc wrote:
"The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was
greatest before there was any civilization, though then, it is true, it
had for the most part no value, since the individual was scarcely in a
position to defend it. The development of civilization imposes
restrictions on it, and justice demands that no one shall escape those
restrictions."
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, 1929
Depends on what is seen as an acceptable restriction limit, and also,
therefore, on your definition of justice.
"Justice is a barter, a trade, an agreement, between two parties of
equal power, to avoid mutual damage.
I give him what he wants and he gives me what I want, and we go our
separate ways."
Nietzsche - 'A genealogy of morals' (as I remember it.)
Without the facility to bargain from a position of equality, if we are
to accept Nietzsche's definition, justice is, therefore, a terminology
that is inapplicable to the situation.
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