@Procrustes,
Procrustes wrote:
I'm going to sound cheesy and say Bruce Lee's philosophy of "Be like water" resonates with me more than the philosophy of forms. We may have forms as you say but I think they are more fluid than anything else.
Well God bless Bruce Lee's soul; but he could not nearly so well define being as he could water which no one can define perfectly... Being for us is life, and life is a moral form which is to say: Impossible to define... Moral forms give us the ability to talk of the unknown as though it were known but in the end we can say we know very little... It is not that we should not try only because failure is obvious.....We can know of justice by many imperfect examples all having some justice in common... And we can know injustice from many imperfect example, all having some injustice in common...We can distill some sense of the thing, perhaps even enough of a sense of justice to live our lives free of violence, hosltility, or dischord... I do not think it is possible to ever make some great social form like law out of a sense of justice that will ever squeeze justice out of injustice without producing more injustice in the effort...
In social forms, if one should discover that people need and want justice, they find they can set a price on it, and they find that most people are willing to pay, even though paying for what one needs and should have, as essential as oxygen is to life, is itself an injustice until so many find that in the necessity of buying justice they have bought only more injustice, while justice is cornered to drive up the price...If the facts were considered, I think most would agree that justice cannot be bought, but that injustice is always for sale, and that the more money is wagered the less likely is the card of justice to be turned...
