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Showing posts with label fairness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fairness. Show all posts

Thursday, June 2, 2011

How's Your Constitution?

What do we consider just? I bet you and I could identify some acts and processes that we both consider just.


One of the main reasons the writers and signers of the Constitution gave for that writing and signing was the establishment of justice among them.


What do we agree is just? How do we establish justice among us? What can we do to maintain justice in our lives?


Justice is related to rightness and faithfulness. What is a process that we can name and agree is right. A process is just, in part, to the extent that it agrees with the facts. Where do we get our facts?


When I think of justice I think of fairness. How do we agree on that which is fair to each of us?


How do you and I and the rest of us establish justice among us? What can we do to establish justice? How often? How can we make justice and keep it firm?


Can we learn to speak among ourselves a bit more effectively?




Justice has a lot to do with rightness and faithfulness. How do you and I agree on the right of it? How do we express rightness and our faithfulness to it?
Voting doesn't seem enough.

Friday, April 1, 2011

Love God

Most gods seem to agree that most love is good.


What most gods ask of us seems to be for our own good.


One of the things men say that gods ask of us is love.


Many say that a god considers love to be higher and easier than is is fairness and justice.


At least one god is said to have explained to us that to love is to find joy in nurturing one another.


For those who find it difficult to nurture and enjoy a number of other behaviors which approximate love are suggested. For example, we are told to avoid killing and greed.


Christians who cannot love are told that following the Ten Commandments has been a useful approximation



Thursday, October 7, 2010

Violence and War

Why do people say, when speaking of the fair allocation of the scarce or contested, that the process must not be political?
Politics is  our alternative to violence and war.
Why do the so love violence and war?