What is fair and what is legal
Fairness and legallity don’t mean the same thing. Each has a different purpose. While legality seeks justice because it doesn’t have it, justice seeks to give others what their right is, what they already have.
Justice is something we all humans work each day to guarantee; a social well-being and depends on us to make it happen. Laws are only a facilitator to achieve it. Justice is an action protected by the law, but law doesn’t have to be just.
Some laws attempt to protect citizens and seek justice to have a common good to all the people inside its jurisdiction, but what happens when there are laws that are against the common sense of human dignity? Can we punish those laws that affects us as human beings?
Sebastián Samyaoa Steta
Law can be seen as a mechanism or a tool that helps to regulate mainly the conduct of the citizens of an specific country, the main purpose of this is to archive a greater good. In a perfect world we would’t need any of this, if we all seek for this «greater good» instead of a personal gain or benefit this world would be a much better place, sadly things don’t work like this, and probably never will.
Law isn’t always fair, its made by human beings so it will never be perfect, but it tries to be the closest to it. Sometimes even the law has loopholes, thats why it’s constantly changing as the world does.
A clear example of a law that can be seen as unfair and goes against human dignity is when a person that is starving takes without paying a loaf of bread, this for me isn’t a crime, that person is only trying to survive and the right to eat is a natural right. Some countries highest courts recently changed some of the laws so acts like this aren’t considered as a crime, but theres a long way ahead of use before we can get to a world where law and people get an almost perfect world.