What do you think Social Justice means?

A common term the seems to be used worldwide is Social Justice. People believe it is something to fight for. But what exactly does Social Justice mean? Imagine a new society and you are the designer. New laws have been designed for it by you and your appointed trustees. These laws are human rights and they are to assure all individuals residing in this society protection of said “rights”.  Healthcare facilities., churches and schools have been developed for all individuals.

For no good reason, within this newly built society, there is now a formed group that decides to stand up and force the limits of access to all other groups for a few days. The forced limits are against the law and will be called social injustice. On the other hand, if you lift the limits laid on the newly built society, it becomes equally available to every individual in this society. This will be called social justice. In conclusion of this hypothetical situation, humankind will have their basic rights and guaranteed self-respect. As it shall be, without discrimination individuals will meet their basic economic need.

           Despite the existence of human rights found throughout the world, Social justice comes with 

issues and the issues are huge. These issues consist of health, shelter, and education and finally food 

and security. Other issues include ageism, racism, rights of the disabled people, women and children, 

corporate accountability, water and sanitation and a lot more. Attention to these issues need to be 

exposed and exploited.

One major issue and concern is making healthcare affordable. All healthcare institutions are required to treat all individuals fairly and equally whether they are employed or not. Competing with the cost of private healthcare facilities impacts all conditions in all healthcare facilities. Broken hospitals need to be fixed, nurses need to be provided with up-to-date proper training, and the healthcare equipment should be top-of-the-line quality as well. 

New settlements must be built for any poor individuals to help improve the quality of life. To be poor is degrading to any individual. Poor people often feel worthless and useless. They feel degraded and feel unseen by anyone of importance due to the living conditions they are forced to reside in. Poor people are living on roads and in slums in other parts of the world. They simply have no place to go for protection of the elements and protection of their environment.

Better educational facilitates are needed. They are needed for our country and for the less developed countries of the world. In many of our developing countries, provisions of education are a concern that must be addressed. Schools don’t have chairs, desk, and even restrooms. Students deal with teachers that do not want to teach or do not take their job seriously. These students also deal with teachers that are poorly qualified.

There are many underdeveloped countries in the world that do not have access of water, much less clean water for their societies. Some people are dying of starvation and malnutrition due to the lack of food because of the high cost or the inability of knowledge to produce food. Innovative programs must be introduced and taught for making the supply of healthy food accessible and affordable.

In a case of a society being developed, it must have proof of fair distribution of resources. This is the only way to address Social Justice issues today. It must be done wisely or not at all.  Every individual should have equal access to rights and opportunities. They must have the ability to practice their rights and even practice different opportunities within those rights and then again be allowed to exercise all those rights set forth to them. They must have protection from the weak and susceptible people. Mostly, a fair system of law should be present in developing a strong equal society.

Many individuals even in the developed countries are at times treated unreasonably and they get caught up in the social injustices. The rules and the laws exist but they are hardly implemented everywhere. It can be said that although the world has progressed a great deal, justice is not what it should be. There will always be someone who will not believe in the achievement of the common welfare of the society. (Farooq, 2015)

References

Farooq, U. (2015, 10 19). Social Justice Definition, Issues and Examples. Retrieved from Study Lecture Notes: http://www.studylecturenotes.com/basics-of-sociology/social-justice-definition-issues-and-examples