Injustice

This view has been challenged by professors including Shklar, Thomas W Simon and Eric Heinze, who consider that justice and injustice are independent qualities.

[6] According to von Hayek, the earliest known thinker to state that injustice is the primary quality was Heraclitus, whose view was echoed by Aristotle and dozens of others down the centuries.

As American civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, in 1963, "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere".

[15] A 2012 study published in Psychological Science found that even babies have a sense of injustice and dislike having it violated, even when they witness events that do not directly effect them.

[16][17] In the field of jurisprudence, Cahn has argued that lawyers should know how to rouse a jury's sense of injustice — something best done by appeals to the particular, not by abstractions or boilerplate type statements.

Barrington Moore asserts that the reasons why populations often submit to oppression for long periods of time is that they consider it inevitable and so their sense of injustice is not aroused.

Writers including Simone Weil, Elizabeth Wolgast and Judith Shklar have said that an aroused sense of injustice can be an essential prerequisite to action needed for protecting the weak and afflicted.

Injustice is in a series of allegorical capitals depicting vices and virtues at the Ducal Palace in Venice .
A metaphorical injustice eating the innocent in Guillaume Rouillé 's Justicie atque Iniusticie . On the twelve legs of the beast is inscribed a variation of the twelve abuses of the De duodecim abusivis saeculi , claimed causes of injustice. [ 8 ]