Since I was a child it has always bothered me when people are not treated fairly. But we live in an inherently unfair world....

Unironically why I embraced activism. Will I create meaningful change to this hellish timeline? No. However, I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I didn't try.

You know, when I was a kid, I thought developing a strong sense of justice was gonna be my greatest asset. “Stand up for what’s right,” they said. “The truth always comes out,” they said. I figured I’d be the guy exposing corruption, protecting the innocent, keeping the whole rotten machine honest.

Well. Looking back… what an investment that turned out to be.

Turns out the machine doesn’t appreciate being told it’s a machine.

Recent events have demonstrated pretty convincingly that justice isn’t some natural law. It’s more like a coupon. Sometimes it works, sometimes the cashier just stares at you while the building catches fire.

So now I’ve got this finely tuned moral compass that starts spinning like a ceiling fan every time I watch the news. Great. Fantastic. This will never drive me completely insane. Not at all. I’ll just keep noticing contradictions until my blood pressure qualifies as a radio frequency.

But here’s the thing—and this is where they get you. You can’t just uninstall it. Once your brain decides wrong is wrong, it doesn’t suddenly go, “Oh, never mind, I guess corruption’s fine now.” No, sir. It keeps filing reports to a management office that doesn’t exist.

Maybe that’s the biggest conspiracy of all. They convince kids that justice always wins, then act surprised when those same kids grow up wondering why nobody’s enforcing the rules.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go staple another page to the evidence board. Any day now, it’ll all connect.

Using my inflated sense of justice:

The movie Inside Out: "Anger wants things to be fair."

Me: "Oh, that explains the flashes of searing anger I feel sometimes."

It is weird to notice another trait that I thought was a personality quirk to be yet again another neurodivergent quality.

Hey kids, consider a career in engineering! Your goals and results are easy to quantify. You'll hold the device in your hands and it will work.

The laws of nature are harsh, inflexible, and perfectly fair.

THERE IS NO JUSTICE. JUST US.

— Death (of Discworld)

It IS a great asset.

It just rarely sparks joy. Especially when coupled with an open eye. And even worse with an open mind. But it is a great asset.

i can't get a job in social work because of this instinct.

Systems suck.

Tfw you realize that justice is not just "a strong sense" but actually a feeling like happiness, joy, anger... It's damn hard to explain to someone why an injustice "feels" bad when they can't understand how justice is a feeling.

Fuck. Ain't that just the truth.

It manifests in weird ways sometimes. Like speaking against remarks made toward someone who is objectively a piece of shit only because those remarks aren't actually true when there are plenty of true things that equally show the person in question to be awful.

Assettlers League, assemble!

most people dont care about fairness. most people say thinks but dont mean it. thats what i learned. they talk just for fun and giggles. i only talk to learn or to understand somethink. i dont get why you should talk just like that without a reason. i dont know how to "play" this game named talking lol. and most people dont behave fair.

Is it Justice or Just Us?

Easy to recognize that you're vulnerable, disenfranchised, and overworked/underpaid. Easy to recognize how the system fucks you over specifically or structurally disadvantages you as a member of a demographic or class cohort. Comparatively hard to deal with someone on the other side of the tracks, with radically different experiences and beliefs, and build a sense of collective justice between you.

Idk how many young people come out with a holistic sense of injustice. I see a lot of "if you were just doing things more like me, you'd have a reason to complain" but comparatively little "I'm not here to question your circumstances, I'm just here for the solidarity for the cause".

The /c/LeopardsAteMyFace channel is choke full of people who get off on the schadenfreude of the modern moment. Meanwhile, on the chud sites, you see plenty of folks who express a personal sense of injustice jerking it with abandon to military snuff films and economic sob stories.

If that's your sense of Justice, no wonder you're going insane.