What is Justice and how is it used in human civilization and society? If we really dig deep and think about it, are we using it properly or is it being abused?
Dictionary meaning
The following is a description of Just Behavior in accordance to the Oxford reference.
Just behavior or treatment. “a concern for justice, peace, and genuine respect for people”
Justice according to the New York Bar Association
Here’s a more in depth reference from the New York Bar Association.
How Justice is misused in the world
Instead of seeking to genuinely understand and if necessary correct or point in the right direction (out of concern and respect and in order to create peace), we find “Justice” used to judge, isolate, condemn and punish those who have already been separated by preconditioned differences in some way.
It’s no wonder that this results in a world that is filled with indifference (lack of empathy), hatred, war and destruction. We are living amongst the sickened whom we chose to reflect and let lead us in this world.
What appears to happen with misuse of Justice?
When judgment is placed, the accuser assumes the problem. Just as a magnet attracts the opposite pole, the problem becomes attracted, and a target that the accuser thinks needs to be eradicated can then always be found everywhere. While at the same time, acting much like a disease, it’s a contagion that is also easily spread.
True Just Behavior and Treatment
I think a real solution can found by creating an environment that preconditions us to curiously try to understand everything (and judge nothing). Conditioning us to know how we are always just a very tiny (humble), but yet essential and necessary (mighty) part of everything.
An environment that brings out a persons strengths and abilities and helps guide them with collaborative direction.
An environment where there is no need to focus on weakness and disability. Just pure peer support through open communication, curious understanding, and sharing of wisdom through experience. All in an effort for each to find a means of acceptance as a part of the same whole.
That’s what I call real justice!