BEING GOOD IS EASY, WHAT IS DIFFICULT IS BEING JUST

The most important pillar that keeps a state standing is justice. Without justice, there won’t be peace in a country, nor will the people be happy. Justice is a vital need for the entire society just like oxygen is. This need is not one whose lack can be felt by individuals at any moment. Justice affects a society from A to Z over a course of time, while it affects individuals when they need it.

The concept of justice is completely gutted in all cultures and societies in the world but a few. Every troubled soul can say they have been wronged, and justice has become a term that supporters of the same ideas and beliefs — a community of interest rather than a religious faith — seek for their fellows. This, however, isn’t the truth, and it doesn’t honor humanity. Justice is a radical Muslim supporting a fervent atheist’s rights stemming from being human and stipulated by law. It is his establishing empathy and wanting for others what he would do when he personality experienced it. Unless this mindset forms for all rival parties, it is impossible to talk about true justice

A look at the social media of late shows that the situation is getting worse and worse among the people, indicating that our understanding of justice suffers serious flaws and gaps. Another situation we come by on TV screens these days is the fact that people demand that higher ranks of the state, the executive, solve issues that cannot be settled by judicial authorities. This in fact proves that confidence in justice is decreasing, or even exhausted, which paves the way for people to secure their own justice. And this is one of the major factors that damage, even disintegrate, societies. Latest studies lay bare the fact that it is not only the people seeking justice who lose confidence in justice but also the very members of the judiciary.

The findings announced Dr. Emin Kaya of Y?ld?r?m Beyaz?t University Faculty of Law from 4,170 participants has brought to light the state of people’s faith in justice. According to the results, public institutions were found reliable at 37 percent, while the rate of concern about being discriminated against was 81 percent. Overall satisfaction with the legal system remained at 33 percent.

39 percent of the judges and prosecutors who participated in the survey found attorneys honest.

The judges and prosecutors who assessed the state of the judiciary found judicial administration fair at 46 percent.

The percentage of the judges and prosecutors who said “The legal system does not secure justice” was 56 percent.

87 percent of the clients cared about winning the case; 11 percent cared about justice.

For the judges and prosecutors, social status was indispensable at 54 percent, career at 19, comfort 19 and fairness at 3 percent.

The attorneys who participated in the surveys found the judges and prosecutors fair at a rate of 36 percent.

85 percent of the participants believed that justice treated people “by who they are.”

If we evaluate our understanding of justice according to our society, we may come across the root of the problem.

Religions, on the other hand, clearly curses Satan. For this very reason, for justice to be maintained forever, the statement that “Whoever remains silent in the face of injustice is a mute Satan” has been acknowledged by the entire society. As the quote suggests, the need for standing up against injustice regardless of religion, language, color and nationality is a major principle in believer. To reframe the issue, it is a matter of humanity to want for others what one wants for oneself whatever their language, religion and color and regard fellow humans as miraculous beings.

Realities are much to the contrary. All kinds of injustices abound in our society.

If we want to live all together in peace, we have to do everyone justice and advocate their rights without considering whether they are rightists, leftists or members of this or that party, regardless of their city of origin, language, or religion. Otherwise, not only the boiler room of the ship but also the wheel house will be submerged under the sea. I only wish that justice would not remain a phenomenon that was lived during Caliph Omar’s era and limned in Thomas More’s utopia.

As also stated by Victor Hugo, “Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.” Therefore, it is now time for speaking the truth, not for rallying cries.

There’s no justice without man.

Can there be man without justice?

There can, can’t it!

But hell with it

?zdemir Asaf