Word: unjust
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...wizened, into its now-familiar form: the gang-war veteran who can be impressed or surprised by nothing. He doesn't act out of an awesome rage, like a Pacino or DeNiro hero. He isn't exorcising personal demons, channeling anger against, say, his uncaring parents, or giving an unjust society the dynamite stick up the butt that it deserves. Freud and Lenin are not on his bookshelves. Kitano Man is just doing what he's supposed to?what he, the killing machine, is designed for. A gangster's life, like a cop's, is not romantic in these films...
...Kelly, the son of Irish parents (his father a transported criminal), barely educated by a British schoolmaster who thought that "all micks was a notch beneath the cattle." Like most criminals, Ned believes he is innocent, that whatever wrongs he committed were acts of self-defense against an unjust society bent on crushing him and all like him, the rootless poor robbed of their past. "That is the agony of the Great Transportation," he muses, "that our parents would rather forget what come before so we currency lads is left alone ignorant as tadpoles spawned in puddles on the moon...
...University of Michigan's current affirmative action plan, which gives all black, Hispanic and Native American applicants a 20-point boost on the school's 150-point admission scale. Many liberals view the decision as a victory; but even as an affirmative action supporter, I consider Michigan's approach unjust and self-defeating...
First, our assumption of unlimited energy at affordable prices is environmentally untenable and unjust in economic terms. Given current technology, the use of that much energy is absolutely unsustainable. Moreover, our use is almost perversely unjust when one considers that rural residents in much of the developing world accumulate cow dung to burn for fuel in their homes while we waste an extremely precious resource...
...situations like the American civil rights movement and in apartheid South Africa, what was moral was resisting the law because the law itself was unjust...