Does equality exist in the society?

Answer 1

I think that you will find a certain element of justice and equality in every society. Justice exists wherever a person who has done wrong is punished. The punishment and the crime are irrelevant; if there is punishment, there is justice (in a broad sense). There will always be punishment. If there is a ruthless dictator, there is justice because you will be punished for uprising (and arson is against the law, so it is justified to punish). If it is law, and it is acted upon, it is 'justice'.

Equality. Broadest sense, again, the same applies. There was equality amongst Black slaves; they all (or for the most part at least) had the same treatment. All Jews were killed in the Holocaust were killed. They were treated equally. There is 'equality'. But it is a matter of modern definition, of course. I will now proceed to stop offending every person who reads this by giving a more 'interpretative' answer, which you may find more helpful (though I hope that you now appreciate that justice doesn't mean 'fair' and equality doesn't have to mean 'everyone').

Is there justice in my society? I live in Britain, and I would say that the law system here is better than most, even if it has flaws, relative to others it gets everything right. People complain about it, but their issues are often minor from an international perspective. Is it a crime that an investigation into the murder of a Black man was not followed up, when innocent people are held in terrible conditions in Guantanamo Bay (hoping I spelt that right) without trial, or in Death Row; you may have heard the case of Troy Davis. Of course, neither is justified, but it puts so called 'issues' into perspective.

There is justice, but it is always hard to obtain full justice. There is always deceit, selfishness and greed. There is corruption. Human nature. Nonetheless, I would say that overall there is justice in my society.

In general this may be a different story. 'True justice' is where someone receives fair punishment in accordance with the severity of the crime. But what an offence requires as punishment is subjective. Is it wrong to stone someone to death for adultery if it says so in your holy scriptures? You cannot prove their religion wrong, so how could you oppose them. Their religion, their God, their rules. So what is true justice? What rules should our society base its laws on? The Bible? Should we also stone adulterers? What is right and wrong? We can, I don't think, ever know whether we have justice, but we can jest as to whether we do or don't.

Is there equality in my society? In mine, yes. I have a friend who has origins in Pakistan and every day in school, he is the one who always makes the ethnic banter. He is absolutely hilarious (and it's not even derogatory in any way, all in good humour). How is it not equality when people can laugh at others' foolishness in being racist; surely it is more entertaining to laugh about these matters than to sue each other over them? This, I think, is equality: a society in which we have so got over racial differences that we would not have it any other way. I dread to think how dull I would be if my friend had not been in my class.

There is equality, but there is inequality sometimes in equal measure. There is a great mixing of races, but I have seen that not everyone in my society has the same feeling towards other races. There is tension towards the Poles over jobs at the bottom, and Asians over jobs at the top (as Asians are attributed with good work ethic, not that I would brand them all with this, but they are certainly more driven to reach the top). This tension results in prejudice, so there is a likelihood that a White would be chosen over another ethnic minority, but that's the present time for you. There is still some equality.

This true equality is whereby everyone in that society is treated the same. My country is not communist, so I'm almost proud to announce that there is not total equality (note that there would still be racism in a communist society). You will never have true equality. For this to occur, you would have to have some maddeningly dumbed down version of current society in which nobody works for anyone else, nobody is in government, everybody does the same etc. so you might begin to understand why there cannot be equality. It is human nature that someone will want power. If you achieve this society, in any case it won't last long. Someone will take the initiative to start a government. If there is government, there is not equality as some have power over others. The society would be vulnerable and collapse as there is no centralised infrastructure to ensure that the economy can grow. There is no economy. No trade. And no justice, rather interestingly. And so on. You can see why, in my opinion, communism is not equality.

This is why at first I did not define equality as being 'total equality', but rather equal treatment, or equal for some, and then "some are more equal than others" (Animal Farm - great book), i.e. capitalism works. You can aim to bring your socialist ideas to the table, and it will improve equality, but it will never achieve it unless destruction is to ensue. There will always be some, but never total equality.

So what do you now define equality as? Total or partial? Which is better? In my opinion, so long as the conditions for those at the bottom are adequate such that those at the top wouldn't mind living in them, it is acceptable to move forwards in this way, but if, like now, those at the bottom live in poverty, this is not acceptable. We should move towards total equality, but not actually reach it. It should be an aspiration, but not the be all and end all.

In conclusion, I would say that there is some equality in my society, though it is not perfect, and that in any society there will be to some degree, but it is always subjective as to what is 'true justice and equality' because it is so open to debate.

Answer 2

Yes it does cause if there was no gender equality, girls will not be allowed to go to school and women should not be able to have jobs.

Answer 3

In some aspects of society, yes. But it doesn't exist in the whole of society.