Views Of Detrich Bonhoeffer And Socrates

"The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical necessity, or social justice is quite bewildering to anyone brought up on our traditional ethical concepts". Evil should not have a place in the name or eyes of the law other than for the law to bring justice onto the evil which as been committed. The law is there to protect and provide equality and justice to all. People are equal. Each and every person has the ability to make their own decisions which ever way they choose to. Some people make grand decisions and some make poor ones. The majority of the time people are good and they strive to help each other. They generally realize that what they do will have an affect on others. Sometimes however, people's judgment, morals, and how they judge others can become warped. This is when crazy things can start to take place.

Socrates believes that in order to have a fair and just trial everyone involved must be considered equal. He states that he is very unpopular with many people because of the slanders that had been brought against him. The fact that he had become "unpopular" with many people hints that his trial would have been an unjust one considering the jury may have already based their opinion of him. In the same way that Socrates was slandered the Jewish people were also slandered against, making them unpopular and disliked. Both Socrates and the Jewish people because of the slander done to them had started out on the lesser side of equal in the eyes of the law. When evil judgment corrupts the ones doing the judging it begins to weave a troublesome web.

Some people make the decision to be good people, and some people make the decision to be bad people. There are different levels of each of course, but the principle of each is the same- good and evil. The law is good (supposedly) and the people of the law are supposed to be good. They are the ones who bring peace and justice to the countries and communities. If the leaders of the law are corrupt the communities and countries will become corrupt, the barrier between right and wrong will become smaller and smaller, until chaos breaks loose.