When It Comes to Justice It is Important to Focus on the Bigger Picture

Justice is a concept that is a necessity in society. Without justice you do not have order and without order you do not have a sense of peace and without peace you do not have long term prosperity. While change often brings with it some upheaval the concept of justice has maintained its trueness throughout generations because it is focused on the bigger picture of moral conscious. It rights the wrongs and levels the disparity (at least in theory).

What does that mean? 

It means that with mechanisms to right the wrongs, a wholehearted attempt to do the moral thing, and a bigger picture of the purpose of justice it saves the system from short sighted thinking and dangers to improper anchoring that often comes from a vantage point of people with similarities of background and perspectives (i.e. skewed perceptions, opinion and judgements)

The Judgement of Cambyses (1489)

Our nation is a whole nation of different types of peoples. We are no long all White or Black, or anything else but more shades of same species. We move beyond specific religious dogma into an ideal where all men shall live free and be able to make the best of the world based on their own abilities (Worship any way they want as long as it is positive to society). They are not hindered by society but by their own internal capacities (Law should help ensure the maintenance of a free society focused on a universal ideal.). 

Then reality sometimes hits! There are people who are within the systems with inappropriate values. They engage in group hate, circumvent and manipulate the law, have little remorse or "moral conscious", and fail to recognize their own behaviors. There are dangers when such individuals have the free hand to influence local and/or national institutions and/or they cause local checks and balances default. 

To me, any level of corruption or distortion is an activity that seeks to force distorted beliefs on others; its a type of suppression through the improper use of power (There are proper and improper uses of power. See DOJ UN Crime and Power Report. The worst possible pdf copy is on the right for download. I also didn't see a date on the initial page. Its always good to put in some reference information. Anyway...worth the read. I think the date is 1981 oldy but goodie.). Because people make decisions and such decisions are often fallible the system must find ways to self-manage and correct. This is why free pass is a sign of sickness and not of institutional strength (Especially if there was foul play and the technicalities of the law give a free pass for it even though it is well known such behaviors occurred and are immoral.) 

Here are my beliefs about the law (Always changing, always emerging. Unlike some of our politicians who make decisions on these laws I don't have a concrete answer on anything. Ask me tomorrow and if I learned something new my opinion will change. However, I should avoid changing my opinion just because its more popular to do so today versus yesterday. i.e. turning on the tv to determine my values today. In other words, the law is a socially constructed reality of the subjective experience of transcendental values that tie us all together to the same moral codes that come define a people. Sorry I was being philosophically "saucy" 😏🙏💓 I'm just trying to say the more people who believe and see the system for what it could be the more likely we will be able to reach that shared ideal.) The law is a necessity, it is a more imperfect copy of truth, one must have wisdom and moral conscious to make decisions when using the law. Our nation has lots of attorneys that make lots of money on the technicalities of the law but often struggle with the bigger purpose of justice. Thus law is a necessity, is imperfect, but tries to the best it can with the decision making capacity of those making decisions. In order to be truly successful Law (and application) must focus on wisdom, truth, and moral conscious to fulfill its mission and restore ultimate societal trust. 

I'm absolutely for good laws designed to move society forward and I'm against manipulation of the purpose of law for self gain. The systems must always focus on the ideal in order to have maximum support, reach and ultimate impact. People recognize mistakes and imperfections but that is under an assumption that the greater system is striving. With good moral conscious I can say that law is a necessity, the system needs improvement, and it must be more focused on the needs of the wider stakeholders in society versus the politicians, lawyers, power brokers and legal orators and their industries. Support is under the assumption that the system will continue to adjust toward a more ideal state (Support includes training mistakes and removing bad apples.)

Here are two quotes I just searched out and found interesting....

Some laws are not written, but are more decisive than any written law.

—  Seneca, 4 AD-65 AD, Roman philosopher

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

—  Martin Luther King, 1929-1968, American leader in the Civil Rights Movement

(If nothing else articles like this are designed to help people think about life, our institutions, our purpose as a nation and stay tied to those ideas and the generational struggles of freedom and equality. The advantage of having a Muslim sounding name is that I have seen the different perspectives of society and believe very much they can be mended because from an elemental level we all want the same thing end result, "life, liberty, pursuit of happiness".  I believe that we are now thinking about the deeper meaning of law and our institutions and that is needed for future growth within a universal society as a beacon of democratic hope. It is that self-reflective process that makes future growth possible and continues to push the institution toward a more ideal state and in many ways marks a passage from one old form to a new one. Yet the proof is always in the pudding. Let us wait and see......page turn.........page turn.....)