http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo_250X250.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Background_1024X576.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Banner_686X60.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Half-Banner_234X60.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo_250X250 http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo-Watermark_250X250.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Background_1024X576.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Half-Banner-ALT_234X60.jpg Bigthink http://www.bigthink.com/feed/rss/comment/idea/2059 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:25:00 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.bigthink.com/truth-justice/2059 Both a physicist and a mystic might say that justice inheres in the immutable law of action and reaction: as you sow you reap. From this perspective, all wounds are self-inflicted, all blessings self-bestowed. Our punitive system of justice is of not much consequence in this cosmic scheme, other than as one among an infinite number of other means or circumstances whereby our actions may bear fruit. The most valuable thing our justice system can do is not punish but educate. Teach us, O honorable judges, by example, to do no harm. Bigthink Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:31:51 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/truth-justice/2059/#1616 http://www.bigthink.com/truth-justice/2059 Sartre wrote: "In creating the man that we want to be, there is not a single one of our acts which does not at the same time create an image of man as we think he ought to be." The notion of force/prohibit should be seen through this lens when governing bodies make decisions about such rule making. Bigthink Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:23:52 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/truth-justice/2059/#479