But that's not all. In countries that practice socialism, there is inevitably a steady increase in the number of laws that restrict individual freedom. While the term sounds wonderful, social justice really means that government has assumed the power to decide what some people may have, or what other people cannot have, or what the state should take away from one person and give to another. As opposed to the rule of law, which provides a firm and dependable foundation, social justice is whatever those in power say it is. There is an inherent incompatibility between the search for social justice and individual rights.
Social justice seeks equality of results.
By contrast, individual rights guarantee equal opportunity, which leads to unequal results. Because individuals have different abilities and motivations, ranging from the poorly skilled to the very talented, from the lazy to the highly industrious. Social justice demands that everybody regardless of abilities or effort end up with the same size slice of the pie. It goes without saying that where social justice is the lodestone, no one's property can be guaranteed, since the core belief behind the search for social justice is that the distribution of property in a free-market society is inherently unjust and must be corrected by the government. That, in a nutshell, is why socialism and freedom are ultimately incompatible Goodbye, Columbus Since Americans have always staunchly defended their freedom and jealously guarded its main ingredients rule of law, individual rights, the guarantee of property America's modern socialists have realized the urgency of doing away with as much of our common American identity as possible.