My thoughts on Justice

                My thoughts on justice are probably the normal thoughts on it.  I believe that justice is the law based off of three ideas:  authority, peer pressure, and tradition.  These three ideas are the main factors of deciding what is right and what is wrong.  Justice is the concept of deciding what is correct in life.   Everyone has a different sense of justice and live by their own rules.  In my opinion there is no real idea as to what is right and what is wrong unless that idea cannot be supported by sensible thoughts.  Everyone has their own ways and so there is no telling what is right and what is wrong, instead we believe there are states of normality due to the three concepts mentioned above. 
                People base justice on what they are told from higher authorities.  Examples can be found anywhere, like if a child is raised by his parents who tell him to eat with a fork, to a child who is told to eat with chopsticks, to a child who is told to eat with his or her hands.  Each child will consider eating the way they were taught to be correct.  This type of justice does not only take place in the household, but in the governments as well.  High authority leaders will makes rules that people have to follow.  This is justice because if they don’t follow the rules they will be punished.  Authority has one of the hardest effects on justice because what you are taught or forced to do becomes second nature and it is hard to change from that.

                Another factor on what is right versus what is wrong is peer pressure.  This can be shown by a democracy.  Whatever everyone does is what is correct.  This way does not develop a second nature as much, but instead defines normality in most people’s minds.  To me there is no normal, but instead a unity.  Everyone has their own ways and I believe that no one knows for sure what normal is.  Someone who does something differently could be doing it correctly, we will never know what true normality is.  In most cases, peer pressure is bad because people do what they don’t want to do just to fit in.  This is probably the worst form of justice that there is due to the fact that it is not backed up by logical reason.