theseus at labyrinth

The majority of us in Canada have traditionally believed that our system of justice, though sometimes mistaken, is the provider of a just Canadian society. That majority is shrinking as a growing number of Canadians come to understand that our system of justice is in actuality a system of injustice.

I will have more to say about this in coming posts

[…”The just-world phenomenon, also called the just-world theory, just-world fallacy, just-world effect, or just-world hypothesis, refers to the tendency for people to want to believe that the world is “just” so strongly that when they witness an otherwise inexplicable injustice they will rationalize it by searching for things that the victim might have done to deserve it…]

[…This deflects their anxiety, and lets them continue to believe the world is a just place, but at the expense of blaming victims for things that were not, objectively, their fault. Historically this concept can be dated back to the theodicy of Leibniz, a theory that was attacked by Voltaire in his novel Candide…]