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I'm convinced that true justice, prosperity and peace are out of our collective reach right now. My goal is to survive and be honest in a world where we only ha

I'm convinced that true justice, prosperity and peace are out of our collective reach right now. My goal is to survive and be honest in a world where we only have shadows (or, too often, parodies) of these things. I am not necessarily opposed to you approaching your stated goals, though I think everyone who tries will fail unless we can create good relationships that transcend things like legal systems. I think that might also be what you are actually hungry for, since you cite concern about "constitution worship". I think the constitution and traditional law codes like it could be a relatively effective rule of law if it were actually followed. Probably more effective than whatever new thing we can make up today with our collective minds largely strung out with fear, stress, anger and mental illness.

_8j50 5y ago
Justice is the correction of evil and wrong. There are no grades of purity. It is always within reach if we act. But I agree about being honest and admitting we can't achieve justice in some situations and settle for preventing harm to others, we need to be honest about that. The core principle you must understand is, in order to administer justice you must accept that guilty people will not have provable criminal intent most of the time and will retain their innocence. But when criminal intent is provable, all effort must be made to administer a fair punishment while allowing victims to show mercy. Your statement about relationships makes sense, I would say establishing sociental trust is the primary step needed before establishing any rule of law that serves as the contract between the government and the people.