True justice requires great wisdom / by kevin murray

Any laws propagated upon the people, in which, that law as practiced, does not take into account that each and every case brought before the justice of the law, is unique and therefore has not only a story that must be told, but also entails circumstances that must be suitably divulged, will find it exceedingly problematic to come to a good and just decision, for that which does not take into account what fully needs to be taken into account, in order to render proper justice, is despite even good intentions, often unjust.

 

It is never easy to govern well, and certainly it is no easy task to render good justice, especially when those that are doing the judging, are dealing with, sometimes exclusively, a milieu of the people that they are not familiar with in the sense of having any true social commonality, in regards to the family structure, the education, the income, the habits, and other relevant conditions that influence how society perceives us, such as race, creed, and family reputation.

 

That is to say, when justice is being determined by any entity, that never has walked a mile in that other person's shoes, in which there are unequivocal fundamental differences between the one who is being judged as compared to the one who is doing the judging, then the justice so being determined, is going to have a very strong tendency to be wrong fully, or in some important aspect of it, unless the personage doing the judging is gifted in grasping the true and full comprehension of that which the judge has not ever experienced; for when the prism that views right and wrong, is incapable or handicapped greatly in the seeing of the world from the perspective of the person so being judged, it becomes quite difficult to be fair in that application of justice, even despite such an intent to do so.

 

This surely signifies that in every aspect of governance, including the laws and the application of law in the halls of justice, that the people that have been selected to be an integral part of that governance, must come from all walks of life, for all those others that are summarily precluded from being part of that governance, are effectively having their voices silenced, and a voice so silenced is indicative that the application of fair justice for all, is not part of that governance.

 

So then, as much as those at the top and are our leaders, might dismiss those that seem irrelevant and are often considered to be part of the problem; the truth of the matter is, that any fair and equal government, must see and relate to the people as they are, rather than pretend that they are something that they are not, and therefore must do its best to understand and to comprehend that all those that have nothing, and are denied fair and equal opportunity to be something, are not going to behave in a manner that is consistent with those that come from privilege, and have been privileged with everything.  This thus truly means, that true justice must always take into account, who and what really stands before them, for it they do not, that justice is more times than not, going to be flawed.