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Advanced Justice Studies
QUESTION
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- Is biology destiny? Why or why not?
• Is it justifiable for the state to take the resources of wealthy citizens in order to benefit their poorer compatriots? Must the state do so in order to be legitimate?
Subject | Law and governance | Pages | 3 | Style | APA |
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Advanced Justice Studies
Is Biology Destiny? Why or why Not?
Biology is not destiny because it is evident that males and females are biologically different and that only the woman has the organs and roles of maternity. However, it is untrue that nature is accountable for the domination of women by men. Such degradation is solely the outcome of human-made institutions and laws in a class-partitioned patriarchal society. The most malicious pseudo-scientific indoctrination on female inferiority is that provided in the name of biology (Harari, 2016). The roots of women's disgrace and persecution are lodged in class society. Somewhat correctly, they coined the word 'sexist' to explain the capitalist social structure, which discriminates against women.
What females remain doubtful about is if or not their biology has played a role in making and maintaining them as inferior. As per the myth-makers in the scientific field, women are biologically handicapped by the organs and roles of motherhood. Hence, this handicap is said to originate from the animal world and makes women helpless and reliant on the superior male sex in providing for them. Nature is held accountable for having predestined females to everlasting inferiority. It is not strenuous to see why this deception of natural and social history has been disseminated. It absolves a sexist society and validates women's repression on the grounds of their biological makeup.
Is it justifiable for the state to take the resources of wealthy citizens to benefit their poorer compatriots? Must the state do so to be legitimate?
Kant argues that the state support of the poor should be attained by forced public taxation and not just by voluntary contributions. Supporting the poor is not only a humanitarian duty of virtue, but a duty of justice that should be satisfied if citizens are to adequately respect the liberty and moral value of their co-citizens (Hasan, 2018). The power of the state to raise finances through taxes in caring for the poor is best comprehended as yet another method in which the state guarantees its citizens liberty.
Poverty poses a significant risk to an individual's liberty since it makes them reliant on the decision on other people's grace. Because they have nothing to their name, their alternatives to exercise their selections are restricted in a manner that is objectionable from the Universal Principle of Right perspective. Extreme wealth disparities lead to a situation whereby the poor are forced into asymmetrical reliance on the rich. In such relations, the poor’s duty to safeguard their status as the free and non- controlled, what Kant characterizes as a person's duty be become a person of integrity is threatened.
References
Hasan, R. (2018). Freedom and poverty in the Kantian state. European Journal of Philosophy, 26(3), 911-931. Harari, Y. N. (2016). Homo Deus: A brief history of tomorrow. Random House.
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