Justice and its many manifestations

Prologue: This is a short piece on justice and chicanery. Unlike my usual style of writing, this one is simpler and direct.

Justice is one of those virtues which all desire but not many are willing to give. To be fair, absolute justice does not really exist in practice and God forbid if it were to exist, half of the population of the country would be wiped off. Most of us have been conditioned to believe that what is fair to us and to our interests is just. Strangely, I personally was brought up in an environment where my parents were ruthlessly just and critical, atleast on most occasions, and I never had that rare privilege of having the parental support for the slightest of the mistakes. Now this virtue of justice was gifted to me by them but even virtues have two sides to them and so was the case here. For justice, I could also turn against my own parents and fight for a case I was not even being paid for. This quest for justice has been so ardent and pressing that I have had to cut off my ties with n number of people countless times. However there is a huge difference between seeking justice for others and for yourself. Once you've raised this little cub called justice and seen it grow, there is no way you would want to lose it till the day the cub becomes a full grown predator and devours you up with an easy burp. Beyond the bounds of familial life, if you see the larger picture, you would see how this little ideal of justice stems into the various branches of injustice. As humans we are driven by self-interest and if you find yourself vouching for the larger interest at the cost of your self-interest, you can count yourself as rare. One set of people claiming rights against another set, the never ending quest for seeking reservation in some manner, the claims of the upper classes against the lower classes and vice versa, the urge to defend personal interest, among others, are just few of the many shades of the travesty of justice. Under the guise of feeling insecure, the countrymen and women have protested not just for justice for their own selves but also for injustice to others. This 'othering' is so deep rooted in us that everyday you would find examples of an 'other' and honestly, I believe life becomes easier if you become ignorant and accept the idea of this 'other' and quietly sip on your tea. The more foreign you are to the ideas of 'other', 'blood relations', 'binaries' and their likes, the more alien and unacceptable you become to the mainstream. As proud as I am to have been born in a country that upholds 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam', I find it hard to come to terms with the hypocrisy that closely follows.How can the process of 'othering' work alongside this fancy maxim

 I just quoted ? This clearly implies that if one were to exist, the other would not. Anytime anyday, we are ready to defend what we call our own against what is not ours but what happens when blind justice to one becomes blind injustice to another? This sets in a vicious cycle of revenge wherein the victim of injustice would wait for just another occasion to settle the scores with the other party and in some cases the sufferer throws the burden of injustice on the next person in line just to get a taste of being a perpetrator for once. Some wisenheimers in fact gather the nerves somehow to gaslight and downplay injustice by either telling how unfair the world is in general or how one should just let go of things and not hold on to them. I really wonder why these Wisenheimers were not blown up by Oppenheimer, after all the world really is unfair. 

P.S. : Follow up to this will trail behind soon.