| | Metaphysical justice is a kind of justice. In other words, it is the method by which people get what they deserve. It doesn't require other people to enact the justice. Reality is fully capable of providing the result. To avoid confusion, this does not mean that some supernatural entity provides the justice either. No, this kind of justice is served by the Law of Identity
The way I see it, the idea that each individual will always "get only what they deserve" is a false notion. The problem here is that there are too many variables beyond the control of the individual. My Dad died of a brain tumor. Prove to me that he deserved to get a brain tumor or had any way of knowing what was going to cause it ahead of time? Medical science doesn't even know the cause, so how could my Dad have prevented this?
I also disagree with the idea that Reality is fully knowable. By this I mean that every last detail of reality is, most likely, unknowable. Did Ayn Rand 100% fully know every aspect of herself, and was she fully conscious of every chemical reaction occurring within her body, with the ability to tweak her own body's reactions with 100% precision. I highly doubt this.
Does anyone here know exactly what your liver is up to at the moment, or know exactly what is happening in every cell of your body? Can anyone here honestly tell me that you fully know ALL the external variables (weather, solar radiation, human activity, pathogen activity) that could indirectly affect your life, and do you have the ability to predict and tweak those external variables with precision. I highly doubt this.
While humans are free to ATTEMPT (with some degree of success) to control their lives, it is clear that humans do NOT have ABSOLUTE control over their lives. Only if humans had COMPLETE AND TOTAL control over their lives, would ut be accurate to say that an individual gets is "what he/she deserves." The truth is that humans DO NOT have complete control over their lives, so individuals are not responsible for everything that happens to them. While humans often do get what they deserve, humans can easily encounter tragedy or painful events without being the cause of those events. Deny this, and you are denying reality.
Jay
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