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Observations: The Mystery of the Greedy Justice Seeker

The Mystery of the Greedy Justice Seeker

     It has recently come to my attention that a small, Chinese restaurant in the market near my house that has been around since I moved in has suddenly been forced to close. Surprised, I questioned further into the matter and have discovered a rather shocking story. Apparently, the owner of the restaurant hired an illegal immigrant several years ago, and while this is an illegal act the owner did it out of compassion to give the immigrant a place to work and earn money. Now, I do not currently which to delve into the lengthy topic of illegal immigration, so let us take that part of the story as is and move on. Several years after the hiring—otherwise known as the near and recent—the immigrant completed the application for citizenship and became an American citizen. Now, what would be the most logical thing for the assumed to be generally decent human race? Personally, I felt it would be to thank the store owners for their compassion in one’s time of need. I mean, they broke the law for you! But what did this immigrant do? He—I do not actually know the gender of this person but let us assume it is a he though it could just as easily be a she—turned around and sued the restaurant for hiring an illegal immigrant all those years ago, forcing them to lose so much money that they were forced to shut down. Never mind that he was the illegal immigrant in question and it was him they had broken the law to help. Now, the restaurant owners clearly have no defense because law is law and without it no country can survive, but can this human being who so easily turned around and bit his benefactors’ tails honestly claim to have acted in the name of justice? Personally, and this is just my opinion, the thought that he may consider himself ‘just’ sickens me. What is humanity coming to if they can so easily burn the ones who so kindly put food on their tables and roofs over their heads? Are we to become a race of traitors?

     Justice is a beautiful and wondrous thing which is currently in great shortage on our world, but it is those who use its banner for their own selfish desires that tarnish what little of it is left when it could have been pure. Laws are not to be broken, true, but neither is that bond of human kindness that is struggling to survive in our man eat man existence. And a sad day it would be when such petty acts by the few destroys one of the few pure qualities left to humanity.