'When You're Accustomed to Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression'

[Babel_17]

6. That's one way of taking the quote, and it's a fair comment for many to make (sadly)

Another way is that people have a highly individualistic way of seeing what justice is. The quote is directed at privileged people who are only mindful of their own desires. True justice takes into account the larger picture. When people say the system isn't fair, they often mean they feel entitled to more. How often are they thinking of other exploited people, many of whom are far worse off? If our nation somehow experienced a financial windfall, and all of it went to only those at the very bottom, how loud would be the yelling against the fairness of that? Where's the yelling now for the fairness of so many being in dire need in a country as wealthy as ours? When does justice come into play?

And at the end of the road, for those who believe in an afterlife, and some kind of accounting, how many would be satisfied with a just judgement, rather than a merciful one?