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Essay / Plato's Essay on the Sense of Justice - 1409
A person is not judged by one bad decision, but by a lifetime of choices he or she has made. One small bad decision someone makes is not what makes it unfair. The accumulation of these decisions matters. It's never too late to change your life; everyone can challenge who they are by being fair or unfair. Plato says that a tree is a tree even before it is perceived or seen in the world. I do not agree with this philosophy; the tree is not a tree until man declares it a tree. Plato may say that I was born to be unjust, but until I declare myself unjust by my actions, I will not be unjust. I can shape or become who I want to be, just like anyone else in their