Word: unjustness
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...comparatively enlightened California penal system. The theory was that convicts, instead of suffering through fixed terms, might be released whenever prison authorities thought they were rehabilitated. Unfortunately reform has proved to be a regression in many cases; indeterminate sentencing has given California prison authorities an extraordinary and often unjust discretionary power over their convict charges. Repeatedly, for the next eleven years, Jackson appeared before California parole authorities, and each time he was returned to his cell. There was an aspect of Jean Valjean in the procedure...
...Stage 3, a child is "good" to win approval; by Stage 4, the law is respected and upheld out of a simplistic concern for law and order. Those who progress to Stage 5 believe that the purpose of the law is to preserve human rights and that unjust laws should be changed. In the opinion of those who reach Stage 6, unjust laws may be broken, because morality is grounded not in legality or in specific rules like the Ten Commandments but in abstract principles of justice and respect for the individual. At this level, a 16-year-old told...
...reformatory subjects were operating primarily at Stages 1 and 2 when the experiment began. Although most of them are now moving into Stage 4, their problems are far from over. As Kohlberg himself acknowledges, moral judgment does not ensure moral behavior; it is hard to act justly in an unjust world, especially for those too weak to resist temptation. Prison rules are often unfair, and prison staffers are not necessarily much more moral than inmates. Outside, released prisoners may find a society that may not help reinforce their new-found morality; although U.S. democracy is founded on Stage 5 thinking...
What wonder then that pure blind rage-the feeling that " there is some shit I will not eat " -drove many into an action that both unjust and stupid...
...Your story on tenure for professors [May 10] attributes to me the pointless sentimentality that it would be unjust to let a professor go ten years after he gets tenure because by then he has a house and kids in school...