Social Justice Policy Brief Assignment

Social Justice Policy

Name

Institution

Course

Instructor

Date

Defining the problem

Social justice policy seeks to enhance equality and equal distribution of resources, opportunities and privileges among citizens. Social justice was originally a religious concept that sought to ensure equality among all people in order to eliminate the differences in social classes within the society. Social justice policy will create a society where all people have equal access to resources. It seeks to eliminate wealthy gaps that exists in a society where some people are extremely rich while others are extremely poor due to unequal distribution of resources (Craig, Burchardt & Gordon, 2008). Also, differences exist in health care access, education and housing opportunities (Ruger, 2004). Social justice policy would foster fairness in the manner in which a society divides its social resources.

May

Biblical Guidelines: From a biblical perspective, people should do what is right based the conceptualization of morality based on natural religion and theology. Christianity, for instance argues that all people should be treated equally with fairness. Christianity acknowledges that people can be self and can sin against each and pursue things only for self-interests. As a result, this undermines social justice as some people may take advantage of others for their own gain (Justice, 2012). Therefore, Christianity emphasizes that justice should prevail so that people do what is right and treat others fairly. In book of Zechariah 7: 9-10 the bible says “Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in you hear” (Biblword, 2022). From this biblical perspective, the social justice policy ensures that the poor are not oppressed by the rich and thus people have equal access to opportunities.

Constitution guidelines: Equality and fairness is a major provision in the constitution since the government pursues equality among all citizens. Therefore, social justice policy should seek to ensure equality and should not discriminate against any population group.

Can

Political Feasibility: Some liberal criticize the idea of government directed social justice because they believe that it is immoral and impractical (Libertarianism, n.d.). In addition, opponents of social justice policy claim that it cannot work in a free society and it lacks a central command point to ensure jobs, wealth, and opportunities are distributed equally and fairly.

Financial feasibility: Social justice policy is not financial intensive since it emphasizes on equality and thus requires little financial input compared to other policies.

Practical Feasibility: It can also be perceived as discriminative because it tends to take wealth from them the rich and give it to the poor. In this case, the rich have legitimately acquired their wealth but would be required to be equal to the lower-class population. However, if properly implemented, the policy will ensure equal access to opportunities and allocation of resources.

Should

The federal government should ensure that people have equal access to opportunities regardless off their race, gender, skin color, sexual orientation among other aspects. discrimination based on these aspects has fostered huge disparities when it comes to access of opportunities, resources allocation and privileges. Social justice policy will ensure equality and fairness.

References

Biblword. (2022). What does the bible say about social justice? https://www.biblword.net/what- does-the-bible-say-about-social-justice/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw94WZBhDtARIsAKxWG-- DGprSEgYUc4wpFd9t61PygyNlclkCyl0Ea6ovydWzF9S6x_ThjCYaAoQhEALw_wcB

Craig, G., Burchardt, T., & Gordon, D. (Eds.). (2008).  Social justice and public policy: Seeking fairness in diverse societies. Policy Press.

Justice, S. (2012). transforming lives.

Libertarianism. (n.d.). Social justice and its critics. https://www.libertarianism.org/media/around- web/social-justice-its-critics

Ruger, J. P. (2004). Health and social justice.  The Lancet,  364(9439), 1075-1080.