Rationalizing Injustice

The Bible warns against all forms of cruelty and injustice, yet many in this lost world despise the afflictions that befall the helpless. Sometimes, they ignore them; sometimes, they mock them; sometimes, they heap contempt upon them; and sometimes, they actively participate in afflicting helpless and innocent people.

In many cases, such abuse is justified as being for the "greater good." But God condemns those who do evil so that good may come from it.

Examples are endless: People say a poor prisoner should not be granted bail, because he's safer in prison.

When the national guard murdered four students at Kent State, many openly stated that they wished more of the young people had been killed.

The awful enslavement of people has been justified as a blessing on the victims, and a means of sharing the Gospel with them.

Abortion is justified because the babies are unwanted anyway, and the barbarous murders kill off the lower class and minority population.

When the truth came out about the My Lai massacre of hundreds of women and children, many Americans thought it was a good thing that our soldiers had killed people who were probably just Viet Cong anyway.

When the government murdered almost a hundred people at Waco, the victims were blamed, with Chris Matthews saying "they got what they deserved."

When we murdered over 700,000 Japanese civilians deliberately in 1945, and bombed Hiroshima, people still justify it by asking the question, how many American lives did it save.

We impose murderous sanctions on countries like Iraq, Iran, and Yemen, killing hundreds of thousands of women and children, but we justify it in the name of national defense.