{"id":4071,"date":"2020-04-27T19:01:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T23:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/?p=4071"},"modified":"2020-05-09T14:19:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T18:19:30","slug":"justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/2020\/04\/27\/justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice & Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Nina Joss<\/em><\/p>\n

April 22<\/em><\/p>\n

This crisis really shows the inequalities\u2014those which are always there. But they are so much more obvious now. It\u2019s exhausting to think so much about all the problems happening right now. Especially overwhelming because they\u2019re not only happening right now, we\u2019re just seeing it more now.<\/p>\n

March 22<\/em><\/p>\n

Can democracy work in a crisis? In a global pandemic, can liberty be effective to curb it?
\nI\u2019ve been mulling over this question lately as we see how different countries are dealing with the pandemic. The difference between China\u2019s strict restrictions and protocols and how some South American countries are placing state-enforced curfews (which I have all sorts of feelings about), whereas the US has these \u201cguidelines.\u201d People here still do whatever suits us, and that opens all of our response, both as individuals and as a state, up to debate.<\/p>\n

I hear people saying things about these guidelines being \u201ctoo strict\u201d and that the government would \u201cbe crazy\u201d to place any harsher restrictions. But in some countries, harsh legal restrictions are almost expected when a crisis like this hits.<\/p>\n

If the job of a government is to keep the people safe, then should our right to liberty be prioritized over our right to life and safety? I guess it\u2019s not that black and white\u2014because who knows which rules will really protect life and which won\u2019t. But I just think it is interesting how entitled (not necessarily with a negative connotation) we are to our freedoms.<\/p>\n

In cases like this, are our freedoms still the most important thing?<\/p>\n

And the way we think about those freedoms is pretty skewed. My friends in Italy and Spain right now would be laughing their asses off if they heard people saying our restrictions are too harsh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Nina Joss April 22 This crisis really shows the inequalities\u2014those which are always there. But they are so much more obvious now. It\u2019s exhausting to think so much about all the problems happening right now. Especially overwhelming because they\u2019re not only happening right now, we\u2019re just seeing it more now. March 22 Can democracy Read more about Justice & Liberty<\/span>[…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4705,"featured_media":3817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[97658],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plymouth-mi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/files\/2020\/04\/VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Journal.svg_.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s7o53H-justice","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}