As you may know, the most famous of Plato's dialogues is an immense dialogue called "The Republic."

The question which opens this immense dialogue is: WHAT IS JUSTICE?

Several inadequate definitions are put forward, but the most emphatically presented definition is given by a young brain-child named Thrasymachus.

He defines justice as WHATEVER THE STRONGEST DECIDE IT IS, and that the strong decide that WHATEVER IS IN THEIR BEST INTEREST is JUST.

Socrates dismisses this argument by proving that THE STRONG RARELY FIGURE OUT WHAT IS IN THEIR BEST INTEREST, and this can't be JUST since JUSTICE is a good thing.

Socrates then starts the question all over again. If one could decide what a JUST STATE is like, one could use that as an analogy for a just person.

Plato then embarks on a long exposition about how a state might embody the FOUR GREAT VIRTUES: Courage, Wisdom, Temperance, and Justice.

In that regard, I ask these questions:

1.) Virtue of Justice: HOW DO ONE DOLLAR, TRIPLED FINES AND MORE POLICE POWER SERVE “JUSTICE?”

2.) Virtue of Temperance: DOES ONE DOLLAR’S WORTH OF “TEMPERANCE” ELIMINATE OR LESSEN EXTREMES TO ENSURE NORMALITY?

3.) Virtue of Courage: HOW IS THERE “COURAGE” IN ACCEPTING THE ONE DOLLAR CRUMB?

4.) Virtue of Wisdom: WHERE IS THERE “WISDOM” IN ONE DOLLAR IN TODAY’S economic CONDITIONS?