w, better, and greater fulfillments. As the continual and increasingly diverse desires and needs for Democratic justices fall further and further from their origin, however, they also become further fragmented. The environmental impact of this fragmentation is to spread the belief that society no longer reflects the needs and desires of everyone, but of special groups and individuals. Though each individual may receive their “portion” of equitable distribution of justice as a result of these processes, the result is a focus on the need for equality that is “so extensive as to suggest that all law has to do with spelling out additional implications of the principles that all men are equal in dignity and worth…but the persistent demands of all groups to get from politics what they consider their equal share of public welfare seems often to have behind it the notion that hitherto each group has been discriminated against (and pendulously now must be discriminated for)” (Davies, 1963: 51). The snowball effect, of course, applies, as the persistent belief that society discriminates (either for or against) causes a reactionary process which begins again the need to fulfill the next level of justice for whatever group seems to be disadvantaged. Summary and ConclusionIn essence the resulting process is a circular one, whereby individuals direct and fulfill their needs through response to environmental stimuli (governmental activities which either thwart or enhance those needs), which then act to circumscribe, direct, develop, and redevelop collective, societal needs in response to individual behavior within society....
