In its mildest form, injustice robs society of its potential for self-development.

In the first case mentioned here, of judicial injustice, the society, by tolerating the injustice, is destroying the life of a person by means of confinement.  It robs itself if that person's contribution for the advancement of its civilization.  In the second case, in which a more subtle injustice is perpetrated against society, the society plays an active role by allowing itself to be looted by a mob of financial sharks whose activities cause poverty, and the resulting poverty causes death.

The latter statement may be shocking, but it is born out by facts.  The death toll of poverty is immense.  Economic underdevelopment is creating poverty on an enormous scale, which is presently causing the death of close to a hundred million people each year.  Each single day 33,000 children under 5 years of age die from underdevelopment related causes, according to U.N. statistics and other sources*(see, Canadian Hunger Foundation, April 1995 letter).  These victims die through the enforcement of policies that inhibit the society's potential for self-development.  They die, because humanity as a whole is denying them the means to live.  Often the denial is carried out by non-governmental agencies in the service of goals that reflect the goals of feudal empires.  The most brutal of these empires has become the global policy force of today.

The relationship between poverty and years of human life denied is so closely connected that the measure of "human life denied" can almost be used as a yardstick for measuring poverty.  One history scholar*(Bruce Steward, Vancouver Canada) has put forward the proposition, that because of the interrelationship between poverty and "years of life denied," as he put it, war comes to light as actually a blessing in that the economic processes necessary for fighting a war tend to eliminate poverty on such a large scale that the net total of "years of life denied" is actually lower during war, with all the casualties factored in, than it is during the interim periods of peace time depression.

While no official study has ever been conducted to prove or disprove his theory, the finding is supported by such statements as that of Bertrand Russell who complained that war has had no effect on curbing population growth.  The events surrounding World War II, appear to prove Bruce Steward's point, at least for the U.S..  The moral thrust for development, in supplying the needs of war, had upgraded the nation's health care standards, improved farm financing, farm productivity, industrial earnings, and so on - in short it had made the U.S. nation the richest in the world.  As the result people lived longer and more secure lives than ever before.

Naturally, war is not a necessary factor for eradicating poverty.  China has amply proven this point.  Economic development can be achieved without the pressures of war.  It can be pursued strictly for the goal of a nation's self-development.

The main point in comparing war and poverty, is to bring out the fact that poverty kills.  The creation of poverty should therefore be understood as murder in the halls of legal justice.  Except, this is far from being the case.  Instead, the creation of poverty is extensively used by the world-controlling empire of today, as a means for achieving its demand for depopulation.  In this type of case the intend is clearly to murder human beings, but the act is not called an injustice.  It is called population control, and this control is deemed necessary by the ruling empire as a means for maintaining its feudal power base.  Thus, population control, though it involves murder, is conveniently taken out of the realm of injustice, because it suites the purposes of those who arbitrate what justice is, to do so.  The murdering happens, because society does not object.

The intend to murder also has other manifestations.  It is found, for instance, in a world wide process to eliminate protection from disease.  In this arena enormous injustices are committed, in which the society directly participates.  One such injustice involves eradicating what was once the lifeline for hundreds of millions of people.  The banning of DDT did just that.  The DDT compound is the most harmless and effective pesticide ever created.  It has benefitted mankind for half a century, protecting crops from insect infestation, and human populations from insect born diseases, such as malaria.

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