@Arella Mae,
Arella Mae wrote:
So I guess the whole world is ignorant then? It's just one more way to take away responsibility from those commiting the acts. I am sorry but I do not buy it.
Hard to argue with that, and the people in it too... We know little and so should do less... We as a people, given our Roman and Judaistic legal history, are all too concerned with fixing responsibility and not at all concerned with fixing bad behavior... An ounce understanding aimed at prevention is worth a ton of prison made to make us feel good about making others feel worse... And since most injustice is legal, and law is constructed by the unjust to condone injustice, we will not soon see improvement...
We create criminals with law... We expect to teach with example those who have already learned injustice by suffering injustice, and then hide the examples out of sight of society...I am sorry; but you have no choice but to buy it... It does not matter that law creates more criminals than it cures... It does not matter that it serves better to enrichen a whole community surviving as an institution, and to empower them at the expense of others, or that as a practical matter, law is like swatting flies with a steam shovel- because we are all taxed to pay for it... In my county, which contains the state capital, Law enforcement is the largest county expense by far...Do you think we suffer less crime or fear crime less for all the money we throw at it??? The problem is this, purely and simply... We seek the responsible party to avoid responsibility ourselves... Socrates was once said to have answered the question: When will there be justice in Athens with this reply: There will be justice in Athens when those not injured by injustice are as indignant as those who are... Law is but a species of justice...
If we will survive whole, we must make universal justice our universal concern because it goes on and on, with more and different people hurt... We must understand the cause, prevent the act by perfecting the person, giving that person a place and an understanding of his place in society, and in that fashion take responsibility for ourselves... There are no innocent people in guilty societies, no guilty people in innocent societies... It is justice that leads to a happy life and a happy society... It should be our first, second, final, and always thought in regard to our human relation...