Social Injustice
Social Injustice
Social Injustice to me is unfairness or injustice of a society in its divisions of rewards and burdens. Social Injustice arises when equals are treated unequally and is caused by certain barriers that prevent full social justice. Some of the major barriers include: discrimination, oppression, racism, and sexism. In order to fully overcome social injustice these barriers must be removed from our society and differences must be embraced.
A global social injustice that I am aware of is the lack of water sanitation that has claimed millions of lives. Inadequate access to safe water and sanitation services, coupled with poor hygiene practices, kills and sickens thousands of people every day. My main thought towards this topic is that this could have been solved by now, millions of people could be drinking clean water right now and not getting sick and dying. Canada and the USA are first world countries that make themselves look better to the public than they really are. I understand that if North America donates millions to help the crisis, taxes and other matters concerning money will increase, but I believe that those few dollars added to taxes will help a considerable amount. The fact that thousands/millions of people are dying daily due to a fixable problem, is absurd and people should be more aware of this issue and do everything in their power to help. It is unfair that millions of people in third world countries are put out of people’s minds. Clean water, sufficient sanitation facilities and better hygiene practices can prevent the spread of disease and even improve nutrition, because people are able to grow more crops when water is easily available. A solution for the lack of water sanitation has already risen, UNICEF has a program for water supply and sanitation. If more fundraisers occurred, the amount of money that could be used to help clean water would increase. An example of this is at St Benedict during jean day, students pay whatever
Social Injustice to me is unfairness or injustice of a society in its divisions of rewards and burdens. Social Injustice arises when equals are treated unequally and is caused by certain barriers that prevent full social justice. Some of the major barriers include: discrimination, oppression, racism, and sexism. In order to fully overcome social injustice these barriers must be removed from our society and differences must be embraced.
A global social injustice that I am aware of is the lack of water sanitation that has claimed millions of lives. Inadequate access to safe water and sanitation services, coupled with poor hygiene practices, kills and sickens thousands of people every day. My main thought towards this topic is that this could have been solved by now, millions of people could be drinking clean water right now and not getting sick and dying. Canada and the USA are first world countries that make themselves look better to the public than they really are. I understand that if North America donates millions to help the crisis, taxes and other matters concerning money will increase, but I believe that those few dollars added to taxes will help a considerable amount. The fact that thousands/millions of people are dying daily due to a fixable problem, is absurd and people should be more aware of this issue and do everything in their power to help. It is unfair that millions of people in third world countries are put out of people’s minds. Clean water, sufficient sanitation facilities and better hygiene practices can prevent the spread of disease and even improve nutrition, because people are able to grow more crops when water is easily available. A solution for the lack of water sanitation has already risen, UNICEF has a program for water supply and sanitation. If more fundraisers occurred, the amount of money that could be used to help clean water would increase. An example of this is at St Benedict during jean day, students pay whatever