Sunday, September 5, 2010

Law and Justice

I was told by a judge "law not necessarily provides justice, it is not the function of law", I have been thinking over it since then, yes; law is to protect interests, factions, and people in society, and it has to keep the balance so that harmonics in society are not impacted, and we all can survive. Justice on the other hand is achieved by collective will of the people in a society or state, when people say nay to a practice, it has to be abolished by state and introduced as law to keep the balance.

I can not see collective will of people of Pakistan to produce what they think is just and right into laws effectively. Problem is that when you demand justice to be done, it has to be done blindly to all; then no Shia no Sunni, no Hindu, No Muslim;all must be equal in eyes of law, and it looks like that we are not going in that direction.

Until we realise, what is justice and how to make effective laws; what we see happening around us will continue.... I do not want to point to any specific event, as all events, every single one in which a life is lost, in which an innocent is brutalised, in which power is abused, they are all related, one and same........they show our inability to rightly demand and provide justice, we all are responsible for this...........if it continues the way it is going...if we won't learn, everything will be destroyed.