What in the World is Justice - Philosophical - Reflective - Meditation

What in the World is Justice?

Many people claim, that they want justice to be served," but what is a reasonable definition of justice. Webster’s defines justice as: "the maintenance or administration of what is just." So is this a just description? (pun). Webster’s defines just as: "having a basis in or conforming sometimes rigidly to fact or reason: forming to a standard of correctness: acting in conformity with what is morally upright or good." Here are three different definitions of justice; one is on the basis of fact or reason, the second is on the standard of correctness, and the third is on what is morally upright or good. So, we have reason, correctness and morals, to look at when somebody in society says, "We want justice to be served."

Reason is a word like unto intellectualism, so anyone with a superior intellect, that can persuade or con people into the validity of their cause, can get justice, by this means, even though their case may not be just at all.

Correctness is a word that is like unto the term, "being proper." So a man can use this avenue to get justice, for if the hearers of his cause are of the same mindset, then he will avail in his case for justice, even thou, his case may be far from being just.

Morality is a huge controversial word that all people believe is good, for they want justice (what is just), yet their belief system on morality might be anything from what is upright.

If someone murders a member of our family, we all want justice. But in the mystical, empirical, realm of morality, every time we call for justice, justice is applied to us first. For, we call for justice to come and so therefore it comes to us first, for we called, and begins the process of judgment to condemn or reward us according to our thoughts and actions. For justice has to do with judgment, and so we are judged first, and then justice flows out from us to those we direct it towards. It may judge us according to what is truly right and wrong, it may judge us according to all the judgments we have made on other people or both. How many in society believes in blessings or curses? Where do these come from? Look at all religions from Voodoo to Christianity, from Islam to Satanism, from spiritualism to witchcraft, and notice all these realms believe in and practice blessings and/or curses in one form or another. And these come from where? For blessings are usually rewards that are given for a good deed done, or may just happen to be passed out liberally to all who happen to be near. Both of these, blessings and curses come from some universal sense of the empirical realm of justice or goodness. Some call it the empirical realm of love. Justice cannot come from the empirical realm of hatred, for hatred cares nothing for the causes of anyone and will curse anyone no matter who they are. For, the mystical realm of hate has no goodwill in its heart, to want anyone to get anything that is good, and that includes justice. It hates all and wants all that are not under its influence and control, to be destroyed.

Now, you may say that this paper has taken a left turn into realms of unreality? You say at the same time, you want justice, or will if someone close to you is hurt unwarranted, yet you call of this mystical thing called justice. It has no form to be seen, it makes no sound, it cannot be felt with the hands, it has no smell, it cannot be talked to, it has no definite description that is known to man, yet it is known to all peoples, of all languages and races, for all men claim that life is not fair. How many of your children have cried out against you on some judgment you made that, "That's not fair!” or “Why does Billy always get to sit in the front seat?" How many times have we when some body condemned us for something, we did not do, or we felt we were slighted, cried out to all around us. "I was treated unfairly!" especially when it comes to job promotions. Part of the definition of justice is fairness. All of parts of the definitions of justice run together run together and cannot be taken in separated parts. Justice is only justice if all true definitions of justice are taken as a whole. Like unto a the recipe for a pie, is you leave out ingredients you only end up with maybe soupy hot fruit juice or a dry piece of crust. Complete justice has to do with all aspects of justice and not just one aspect.

Justice is like a land in the mythical, empirical, realm of the land of goodness. When we call forth the powers of justice to our cause, it is blind like the lady of justice statue and does not distinguish between us and them. She comes into our realm of humanity and brings her powers to bear on all. Some may call her karma, some may recognize her as "What you sow, is what you reap." Some may know her as the Distributor of Blessings and Curses, and some may know her as Fate and Destiny. We all know her, yet we know her not at all, and cannot figure her out. For, she is the personification of the land of justice that is part of the mystical empirical realm of goodness and love, and other such titles.

So when we call for justice, we call for judgment on all parties involved, and in all areas, for we call on justice and she comes and judges all. That is why the lady of mercy is so much greater than the lady of justice, for when we call for mercy upon our enemies, then, she bestows mercy unto all her enemies, which includes us, for we all are to be the enemy of the lady of mercy and goodness, for who has not done something unfair, wrong or evil to another human being. As an example of this, look at all the children who have called their parents unfair, or have lied to their parents, and we were all children once, and still are to the mythical, empirical, realm of goodness.

Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary. Copyright 1979. G. & C. Merriam Company.

Copyright 2007 James Wood

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