Thursday, December 6, 2012

Blog Post on Rash

I recently read Rash and the question I picked is was justice served? I think that justice is a way was solved for the main character Bo. Bo lives in the future, where everything is super safe and people are sent to prison for doing something as small as littering. Bo, unfairly gets sent to a prison camp where he meets friends and plays football, which is illegal. When Bo gets unfairly sent to prison, he is mad and confused. Although he did create some crimes, they are not strong enough for him to get sent to prison. Even though he gets out of prison, he does not feel satisfied that his life has been fixed. There are still unfair laws restricting peoples' basic rights. I feel that justice is being served only with his personal justice.
I feel that the people who were stopping the justice is the people who created the laws. They didn't realize that people should have personal freedom and laws should not be that strict. Even tough unconsciously they do not know they are stopping the justice, they are. What is ironic is that they are supposed to be represent justice yet they are doing the opposite. I think the one who is bring justice is Bork, Bo's animation monkey that aids him throughout the book. He is the one who manages to get Bo out of prison, and he helps out his family. Even though he is just a creation on a computer, at the end of the book he posses enough intelligence as a human.
I feel like in the real world justice wouldn't be served at all, even personal justice. If the United States did change their laws, I doubt that a computer creation could outwit them. In the book, there is no general justice served because the laws didn't change, and I feel like that would be true in the real world. Bo's personal justice is given to him almost by a accident. If this was the real world, I doubt that anything would change to the better, or change at all.

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