Balance – and Justice for All! · Collective Fairness and Peace
⁘ “Fair dealings and justice for all. Justice, not letters of law – with ethics born of the common sense of belonging to a collective. When your idea of happiness implies the sadness of others, there's neither safety nor peace for anyone.”
Fair dealings and justice for all.
Justice – not law and its interpretations.
Rather a fabric of ethics stemming from the common sense
of us all being a part of a shared interdependent collective.
Such fancy words, but they are not for the philosophers or the governors.
They are for all of us to register and apply in our lives.
When you yourself chronically subvert, override,
exploit others in order to meet your desires,
in order to eliminate your fears.
Then tell me, how is there fairness for anyone?
When your idea of happiness implies the sadness of someone else.
When your creation requires the destruction of another.
Then how is there safety for anyone?
And when we live in a world so polarized,
each an enemy unto the other at the end of the day,
when push comes to shove –
then how is peace a prospect for any of us?