Some people like to reduce current events to a struggle between liberal and conservative opinions. The implication of such framing is that politics is essentially a sharing of opinions and that sanity is always meeting somewhere in the middle.
The “two sides” narrative masks the fact that power isn’t an opinion. Passing a law that imposes my point of view on you is no longer just my opinion, it is an attack on your agency. Nor is it just an opinion if you impose your viewpoint on me. We both have a right to our opinions, but neither of us has a right to impose opinions on the other.
Justice and injustice are not topics of an abstract discussion where there can be an honest disagreement between two equals. In matters of justice there aren’t “two sides” as there are in discussions about opinion. Poverty isn’t just an opinion. Dying of preventable diseases isn’t just an opinion.
When all the power is on one side, balanced political discussions can actually mask the oppression that is happening. Freedom of speech means little to someone shackled economically and politically.
Providing logical reasons why someone should not have the same rights as I is still injustice no matter how persuasive my excuses. Sometimes the people most affected by oppression aren’t even invited to the “debate” to defend themselves.
Again, there aren’t “two sides” in matters of justice because compromises in justice are still injustice. Moderation in our passions is a virtue, but being “moderate” about someone else’s human rights is still injustice. People are either getting their needs met, or they are not.
We have a duty as human beings to get past abstracted discussions about our political views and to work for a standard of human right that applies to every person on God’s green earth. Justice also demands curbing hoarding of property and power so that no one anywhere on earth has the power to deny others the rights they claim for themselves.