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Wrong, abuse, inequality.
Justice, in its most constructive form, is perceived as the respectful, responsible, assertive, tolerant, empathetic, and compassionate interaction with others. It respects the right of others to hold their own views and make their own choices. It credits other persons and oneself with the attitudes expressed and the actions taken by each. In other words, you get the praise, and, you get the criticism. You are held responsible for the influence you have on others to the extent that such an influence interferes with the freedoms of others, or, provides benefit to them.
Assertive communication focuses on the rights of oneself and others with the usual assumptions that all humans are fundamentally equal in their right to live, to hold opinions that may conflict with those of others, to make choices without coercion, manipulation, or deception interfering with one's intent and desire. Assertiveness also expects that each individual should have the freedom to make personal choices of action, support, and inaction --- as per opinions above, excepting where others are needlessly emotionally or physically hurt, caused damage to their property, or losses to their savings or earnings.
Inaction, apathy, passivity, fear, or laziness are not valid excuses for a denial of one's responsibility to assert one's rights. Assertiveness also deems that if you fail to express opposition to attitudes and activities which you choose to hold as dangerous, cruel, victimizing, treacherous, criminal, or otherwise abusive --- you are considered to be acting in support of those actions, and, may be held as equally responsible as the person or persons who are carrying them out.
In dense populations, privacy becomes increasingly important in its ability to allow for individual freedom of expression without the sanction of others. Communication and interaction can increasingly become ritualized and anxiety producing as spontaneity and honesty become more difficult. Too many people in an environment for meaningful contact is like any other excess: it leads to a decrease in potential positive stresses and efficiency replaces quality. Technical efficiency overstrains the physical abilities of the human body, denies the emotional requirements, and can frustrate one's spiritual potential.
Quality-of-Life demands self-pacing.
Self-pacing demands self-directedness and self-restraint. For most humans, a lack of quality experience in the early years of life fails to prepare one for the challenges and opportunities of maturity. A person not provided with quality and not enabled to take quality does not know that quality is an option and has no motivation to acknowledge it, seek it, or work towards it. A winning person chooses quality. Quality-of-Life improves and maintains health while enabling one to be more creative and productive. Many people only know to let life happen to them, doing what everyone else is doing because everyone else is doing it.
As quality decreases and patterning increases the potential for miscommunication increases and encourages the expression of negative emotions as an extension of unexpressed and unresolved frustrations and abuses. The field of law provides a ritualized form of dispute negotiation and resolution where good parenting, mentoring, and maturity have been minimized for short-term economic efficiency. Increasingly, for many, the longer one works, the more money can be made, but, the less time is available to maintain quality relationships with persons regarded as significant to oneself, regardless of the number.
In commercial societies, ownership becomes increasingly important for its perceptual use of establishing boundaries on how far the rights of the individual extend beyond themselves. Legality is a social construct intended to remedy earlier abuses and losses sanctioned by the society.
Law is a way of having the state parent the adult.
To the extent that the law is enforced is the degree to which one can have confidence in it, find stability in one's social environment through consistency, and, experience peace through resolution. Delivery of the law parents those who come before it and imprints patterns. If it is blind and unjust, it encourages the unjust to continue being criminal and for the victim to accept victimization, or, victimize others --- enlarging the presence of injustice in the society.
Two practical examples will be used here to provide an illustration of how a spiritual perspective and Spiritual Guidance mentoring can provide a constructive response to injustice. That is JUSTICE.
While the examples are from a Canadian Province, the legal complexity, detail, structure, formality, and injustice ... is common to most legal systems.
- Tenancy Rights (Ontario);
- Defamation and LIBEL (Ontario).
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