Man will always act on Opportunity

 This morning I came across this short essay I wrote back in 2017 while studying for my first MA. If you ever get the time to watch Harvard's 'Justice' series, please do. If not, you might have time to read my books instead...

https://www.amazon.com/Gubacsi-Dulu-Book1-Humanity-English-ebook/dp/B08FTJTYCD

In my honest opinion, due to corruption and greed from those we have allowed to govern us for centuries, politics and justice have driven our society to a breaking point of absurdity, though after watching Harvard’s “Justice” series I can see that rather than continue with this fiasco, there are many ideas and theories we should perhaps follow and endorse.

Government has taken over many parts of our society, bringing in laws which make us safer, tell us how to live, and tax anything and everything which it can, with or without reason. In my opinion, there is too much legislation which has flowed over into territories where it has no place to be. I do not completely believe in the Libertarianism role of government, with no paternal legislation to keep us safe from ourselves, as there are many who need these laws – though perhaps it may wean out those with less intelligent DNA - but there is too much moral legislation, for example, telling us who can and cannot marry or whether abortion is legal, which is in fact none of its business, and there is also way too much redistribution of our income (taxation) going back to government with little or no power for us as citizens to have a say as to where it is used, other than to vote for another representative who will also not listen to us and would do as they saw fit.

I do agree with Locke’s ‘limited government’ in the point that each citizen must pay their dues to leaving the state of nature and entering society which is a safer place to live, only having a minimal state taxation for Defence, Police, and the Judiciary - as Immanuel Kant and John Rawls mention, we are individuals who are not tied to history or tradition though we may have an obligation - but the consent of the majority does not bring into account the consent of any minorities, as this fails to respect each and every one of us, this being a Libertarian view of life.

In truth, I believe Kant is correct that we are all “slaves to our desires” and as such we have no real freedom, and in point, any freedom of choice, but that does not mean we should sign our rights away to a self-inflated government that thinks it knows what’s best for us. I believe Kant’s Veil of Ignorance is possibly the only way to create a fair framework of rights and duties for a limited government to rule over us - taking into consideration of course Robert Nozick’s three principles of Entitlement Theory to help form its basis, a justice of acquisition, transfer and fair rectification of any unjust transfer - a framework made by a group of people gathered together with no prejudices of race, creed, colour, gender, handicap, stature, status or religion to lay down legislation for all, but I am afraid that the ‘human condition’ would never allow such a hypothetical approach to exist practically. Man will always act on opportunity, and whomsoever has the position of power to create legislation over us will use the opportunity to better themselves and their immediate circles.