Universal theme overview
Injustice is a child in the Universal themes series and is a member of the Justice theme family. This is a theme overview post.
Injustice is an unfair act, decision, or pattern of behavior that causes someone, or a group, to suffer hardship or to suffer an undeserved loss.
Big ideas
- Judgment of others is judgment of yourself.
- We all have bias and prejudice within us; how we act on that determined what kind of people we are.
- Luck is more useful to those who work hard and plan for it.
- Never assume the world is right and you or others are wrong. Always ask how it could be better.
- Your humanness gives you infinite things in common with every other person past, present, and future.
Injustice key concepts
- A bias is something that causes more weight to fall on one side of something. A leaning of the mind toward one object or course.
- Ethics is the study of the moral choices made by individuals in relation to others and the rules and customs that have arisen in different situations and fields to guide people in making better choices.
- Fairness means that clear and good conditions apply, that equality and honesty are used in making decisions. Nobody feels as though they have received an unfair advantage or disadvantage.
- Justice is the consideration of giving each thing its fair result based on uniform principles of right and wrong. (
- Luck is what happens to a person or thing that may or may not have anything to do with what is deserved, intended or expected.
- Merit is the state of deserving an outcome based on earned actions or character.
- The minority is the smaller of two related numbers in a group, the group with fewer items or people.
- Two or more things that have parity are equal, they have the same degree, state and/or position.
- A privilege is a benefit granted to some individuals but not others in a group. This benefit can be an added reward or ability or can be shielding the chosen people from a burden.
- A question is an unsettled issue, open for debate and investigation.
Archetypes
animals: monkey, wombat
birds: crane, hornbill, thrush/thrasher
flowers: black-eyed Susan
foods: horseradish, lime
roles: cowboy, frat boy, reformer, scapegoat, slave, stepmother, victim
settings: jail, old west