Leviticus 19:15
You shall do no injustice in court. You
shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall
you judge your neighbor.
Injustice is almost exclusively thought of
in terms of the latter. Our script defaults to a rich, influential person
getting away with murder because they are rich and influential. And that
certainly is in view here. That is injustice. But so is being partial to the
poor. To assume that poverty is closer to verity is to make an equally unjust
determination, only in the opposite of the typical direction. The poor are no
less sinful in essence than the rich, although they have less access and
opportunity than the rich. Either way, justice is a matter of principle, not of
socioeconomic position per se.
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