Tentative Title: Vigilante Justice: Blurred lines between law and justice Keywords: Justice: There is no true definition of justice as some believe that this subjective term is something that exists outside of the law while other thinkers believe that it something that is achieved through law. For Derrida‚ a given act or judicial decision cannot be considered just or unjust since no such decision exists rather it is an application of a rule (Derrida‚ 2002‚p. 243). Revenge: Any action that responds
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The Unwritten Code The Police “Code of Silence” is an unspoken rule among many police agencies in the country. It is a code of “honor” in the police brotherhood where giving information about another police officers wrongdoings is considered an act of betrayal. Other terms for the code include: “The Thin Blue Line‚” and “The Wall of Silence.” Police academies across the nation are close-knit communities of law enforcement. From the first day on the job to the last‚ every officer is supposed to count
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Capital Punishment: Injustice of Society Looking out for the state of the public ’s satisfaction in the scheme of capital sentencing does not constitute serving justice. Today ’s system of capital punishment is fraught with inequalities and injustices. The commonly offered arguments for the death penalty are filled with holes. "It was a deterrent. It removed killers. It was the ultimate punishment. It is biblical. It satisfied the public ’s need for retribution. It relieved the
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The United States is a country that prides itself on diversity and individualism. While these ideals are very much true‚ often times‚ the pursuit of happiness and the American Dream are harder to attain for people of color or those who don’t abide by “social norms”. American policies are set in place to keep heterosexual‚ white males in power thus institutionalizing patriarchal‚ heteronormative and eurocentristic values. The tendency to view all issues from this perspective prevents the voices and
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Decades upon decades of inhumane and demoralizing treatment. Countless lives lost‚ and thousands of families split apart. Worked endlessly for hours‚ and even days on end. Deprived of food‚ water‚ and shelter. Spat on. Whipped. Beaten until chunks of skin were left hanging almost by a thread‚ with blood covering backs and the grass below. Beautiful human faces scarred and bruised. Slavery was evil‚ just as racism is to this very day. Even after the emancipation of African American slaves‚ white men
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Name: Zachary Quek Suan Chieh I.D.: 112051-06965-010 Course: BCS account.h using namespace std; class Account{ protected: double balance; public: Account(double x){ balance = x;} virtual double getBalance(); virtual double debit(double x); virtual double credit(double x);}; account.cpp #include<iostream> #include"account.h" using namespace std; double Account:: debit(double x){ if(x>balance){ cout << "Debit amount exceeded account balance." << endl;}
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whether they are no less deserving. In contrast‚ there are some who have ownership over assets and earn income that they may not be deserving of. The distributive balance is upset and wealth distribution today can thus be seen as a social injustice. This injustice that is becoming more noticeable as people start to become aware of the facts‚ as we can see through the start of the occupy wall street movements that‚ first started on wall street in America‚ have spread to other countries (one of which
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Justice vs. Injustice is a very prevalent theme in the text To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the song “You’re Crashing‚ But You’re No Wave” and the article The Nation: The Central Park Jogger; An Old Case in a Different New York. In To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM)‚ Atticus Finch is called on to defend a black man accused of rape. Before the case is turned over to the jury‚ Atticus presents the jury with his final argument. He believes that the case requires “no minute sifting of complicated facts‚” and should
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inflicted should correspond in degree and kind to the offense of the wrongdoer‚ as an eye for an eye‚ a tooth for a tooth; retributive justice.” (Collins‚2015‚ par 1) The code of Hammurabi is very central to this definition. The idea of it being fair or not fair is not fair will be shown with evidence. (textbook) The culture of Mesopotamia used a vast number of different justice systems. Some decisions were left up to the gods instead of the judges themselves. In some ways the courts were very precise in
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largest of three pyramids . Well‚ in ancient Egypt the workers had spent the whole entire day building pyramids for the pharaoh’s. Great achievements are not worth great injustice because they were in pain and only bathed once a day ‚ also have to eat with their dirty fingers. Great achievements are not worth great injustices because the worker that built their pyramids only take one shower a day to not stop building the pharaoh’s pyramid. In the text it states “were those grand achievements
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