Outstanding piece, Thomas. Socratic/ Neo-Platonism anchored on the brilliant mind and words of Thomas Sowell. The principle you enunciated here is so foundational to the issue of JUSTICE, but sadly, for various reasons, "many victims become oppressors when they gain power". Look no further than many nations in the developing world especially in the poorest region of the world, Sub-Saharan Africa.

For those "noble souls" heavily invested in possible solutions for Africa's Dilemma, this is, without a doubt one of the steep mountains to climb for a continent where several of the heads of the nations have been in power for more than 30years.