Justice
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This paper is an examination of justice, one of the principles of living outlined by the Bible. Although many religious leaders speak of "the seven principles," the Bible actually does not specify seven distinct standards by which an individual should live. Instead, its writings give examples of a right way of living, and one of the examples that recurs throughout is that of the just life, lived according to the guidelines of the saints, prophets, and disciples of the Old Testament and the New Testament. In contemporary society, two very different individuals embody the principle of justice, one a writer who has dedicated his life to seeing that justice is done, by continually reminding his readers of one of the greatest injustices in history, the other a Forest Service employee, who has put her career on the line in order to do the job she believes she came to accomplish. Both Elie Wiesel and Mary Dalton personify the Biblical principle of justice. In his inauguration speech, Jimmy Carter quoted the prophet Micah, "What does the Lord require of you but to do justly. to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?" (Mic. 6:8). In this book, justice is one of the most important qualities an individual can live by. Yet the Bible draws a careful distinction between the justice of human laws and governments and the justice of God. The 82nd Psalm, for instance, urges, "Defend the poor and the fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and need
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ecided, "The only way to escape being contaminated by another person's madness is by attempting to cure it" (349). He learned French, the language of his new home, and began to write about his experiences, finding a voice which editors were at first reluctant to publish but which readers found compelling.
At first, those who had not seen the concentration camps or understood their devastation believed that Wiesel was exaggerating. In addition, many who knew he was recounting true stories wanted simply to forget that such horrors had happened. However, Wiesel was determined to tell his people's history and to keep telling it, in order to help bring his tormentors to justice and to keep the Holocaust fresh in public memory.
He attended the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the most notorious Nazi killers, and his reports were clear-eyed, balanced, and powerful accounts of an almost unthinkable crime and an astonishingly banal criminal:
If only the defendant could be declared irrevocably inhuman, expelled from the human species. It irritated me to think of Eichmann as human . . . Could there be any punishment for crimes of this magnitude? Cain, after all, exterminated half the human race when he killed his brother, Abel,
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)
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