As a general principle, I believe that people’s value lies in relation to themselves and not in relation to others.
As such, I find great mistrust in the presupposition that because a person has suffered great injustice, the injustice that someone else has suffered becomes insignificant in relation to it because it is smaller.
Injustice is not a competition. Each injustice stands on its own. If the fact that the injustice one person has suffered is greater than another person’s makes the latter’s insignificant or meaningless, then the injustice the former person has suffered becomes means of further injustice upon the latter. If one injustice is directed into the stifling of another and holding it hostage, none of them will be solved. The path to justice is open and unrestricted inquiry.
Each person and the injustice they may have suffered matters in essence, no matter how small or great. Though of course, other circumstantial principles can affect how much consideration it deserves and whether another classification of its nature is appropriate. But to dismiss it categorically and claim that it doesn’t exist or must not be regarded out of comparison and on terms other than itself is far from a cohesive and universal sense of justice. Having suffered greater injustice than someone else is not a reason for the mistreatment of them or the furthering of their injustice.
One should always wish for justice, even against one’s greatest foe. And never let hatred avert one from just consideration. Otherwise, the integrity of justice is compromised and its sovereignty rendered meaningless.
The Searcher Who Wants to Give 