What's the use of speaking Truth to Power if Power is deaf? Do you have other unanswerable questions like this?

Who put the bomp, in the bomp sha bomp sha bomp? Does anyone really know?

Who let the dogs out? (I never knew what that meant.)

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

When we die do we haunt the sky? Do we lurk in the murk of the sea? What then, are we born again? Just to sit asking questions like these?

I’m thinking Socratically.

Is justice achievable?

@Hawaii_Jake

Only in a very limited sense, where damages can be accurately measured and repaid in monetary terms. At least that’s how I see it.

where HAVE all the flowers gone?

Why do dialects form?
How does it feel like to be blind or deaf from birth? It can’t be the same as becoming deaf or blind….
What if all is a lucid dream? How to prove if you’re dreaming or not?Are dreams in fact traveling to a paralel universe?
If languages have such similar, not to say identical structures on the deep level, why are there so many different languages then?
If you touch yourself, do you feel your hand touching your skin, or your skin being touched?
Where the hell are all those crickets during the day? Where do they pop out from?
Solid material is heavier than luquids. How is ice lighter than water then?
We all have different consciousness and perceptions. Is it really possible we all see, hear, taste and feel differently, but only think we function the same? What if the red I see is completely different from the red you see, but we’re both told it’s red, so we think we see the same colour?

How much is that puppy in the window?

@Darth_Algar I suggest we read The Republic together and discuss. It’s not a simple answer.

@Hawaii_Jake

I suppose it depends on what one considers justice. To my view, I think of justice as restorative. Thus justice is really only achievable in cases where losses can be objectively measured and repaid. For example: I carelessly blow through a read light and smash into your car. You are fine, but your car is wrecked. In this case the damages can be measured. Your car can be repaired or replaced and you can be compensated for loss of wages (if you miss work because of having no car) and other related losses/expenses. You can be made whole, as it were. That’s justice the way I see it.

Now say I blow through the red light, smash into your car and you end up a paraplegic as a result. I can compensate you monetarily, but you cannot be made whole. No matter how much money you’re given in rightful compensation you still must go life in a diminished capacity. Your legs can never be restored. Justice, thus, is not really achievable, only recompense.

That’s my view of it anyway.

@Darth_Algar That is a utilitarian view of justice, and it is very narrow. I’m speaking much broader in a Platonic view.

This is a quick overview.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_(Plato)

Justice can be distilled down to harmony between factions that have differing allegiances, and putting it that way is very rudimentary and incomplete.

Questions, questions! The topic of justice (and all the other Socratic dialogues) is fascinating and deserves its own thread. But just questions here, please.

What part of speech is “bollocks” in “Bollocks will Quora review all question details!”?

@Jeruba Thank you for asking this question. @Darth_Algar and I can take our conversation elsewhere. It is very common in the Social Section for side discussions to emerge in threads. It’s actually more than “very common.” It’s the norm.

Well, you’re right, @Hawaii_Jake, thread drift goes with the territory. It’s only that for this particular question, the anticipated answer is a question. But discuss away. It’s still a great topic.

In an era of cheap flights and high speed trains is it still a long way to Tipperary?

Does one third of the American electorate really believe that Trump is doing a good job?

If a tree falls on a man alone in the woods is there a scream?