Early Americans understood their rights and corresponding duties, and they founded a limited government that enabled communities to flourish.

On Social Justice

by Brittany Baldwin

A few weeks following the Philadelphia Society national conference, President Obama called NBA player Jason Collins to congratulate him for his recent announcement that he is gay. President Obama was “impressed by his courage,” and he later told media persons that Collins’s coming out is a sign that our nation is not simply moving towards tolerance but towards “complete equality.” Our President’s statement personifies the social justice phenomenon scholars and leaders discussed at the Indianapolis conference, and it underscores the common falsification of justice in American culture. 

The term social justice is used frequently, and the Philadelphia Society conference enabled young people like me to examine the philosophical flaws and moral implications of this modern ideal. Though social justice has taken the place of what used to be called civic virtue, in reality, as Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars put it, it is an “incoherent blob.” The families who defended American independence understood the necessity of civic virtue, which calls all citizens to recognize a divine creator, care for their neighbors, participate in local government, and work as a community to shape the character of their children. By contrast, the prevailing concept of social justice requires officials to distribute privileges, opportunities, and outcomes equally to all persons. This attempt to force fairness does not merely defy justice—it leads to an individualistic and immoral society.

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