The Three Pillars of Justice
Kevin 2009 \\ fractalenlightenment.com
Logic, Compassion and Judgement are the three pillars of justice. Logic is the facts. We need facts. We need to understand the truth of all situations. Like the fact that the tourism, whaling and fishing industries are effecting the life of the Orca whales, other whales, and sea creatures in a negative fashion. This is a fact. The fact that plastics have covered our oceans and the shores of many nations’ shorelines. The fact that oil pipelines are breaking and spilling onto beautiful native lands, and that cities and children are poisoned by lead in the water. There is the fact that the weather patterns of earth have changed. There is the fact that the burning of trees, oils, and gases are effecting the atmospheres above us, and that the patterns of the migration of birds and butterflies have been affected greatly by these global weather patterns.
Compassionately, we say, why must these people and animals suffer so? Why must our earth, our planet, who provides for us shelter, food, and warmth, pay for our inefficient and selfish needs? Logic and Compassion are the roads to Justice. Also, what are the arguments against all facts; the facts we experience on the fronts of environmentalism, human rights, animal rights, and all together “community rights” for the people, animals and environment of our home planet? It is so hard for some of us to understand that there could be any arguments against this logic, this compassion, and thus all of these injustices.
Well, let’s change the subject to Mental Illness for a moment. A human that has experienced major trauma or stress; physically, mentally, emotionally and/or sexually, like myself, may have developed an anxiety disorder, depression, post traumatic stress, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, schizophrenia, addiction, and/or an eating disorder, et al. - still, where is the logic and the compassion that are necessary to defend such dispositions? The facts often contradict general compassionalities. The fact may be that one that suffers from major mental illness experiences isolation and the inability to work and support themselves. They may have broken the law due to rage and paranoid delusions. They probably need medications, treatment, and financial assistance that is not available. They may turn to crime, addiction, alcoholism, and infidelity in order to cope with great suffering. They may have even murdered a family member, taken a gun to school, or burnt down a building. And those are the healthy choices to some degree, because the final option is suicide. School shootings, cult massacres, and bombings often result in suicide(s). All are mental illness related. Still, how do have compassion for these situations?
Obviously, mental illness is preventable. I believe this is true. We all need loving parents, healthy bodies, and a world that is not being destroyed environmentally by greed and ignorance. Community Rights, a concept that believes in, and legally fights for, forests, islands, and bodies of water; in order for these spaces to have legal “human” like rights in the court of law, does so, so that they are defended and thus protected, and that all species that live within these physical natural locations benefit from having legal rights. The mentally ill, too have community rights. This community alternatively, is our human family, both in rural and urban areas. How do we defend and nurture these environments, so that our children and adults can live with, heal from, and/or avoid severe mental illness, all together. Community Rights for our planet, are not necessarily the same thing as Community Rights for our human family, but in the end, if defended properly, I believe they can uphold eachother, work together, and homage eachother, so that our human family and our planetary biological and geological families can live together within peace and harmony. Both will naturally care for the other if defended and nurtured.
Judgement. The third pillar. This is every single human being every day taking responsibility for a choice. Your life is your courtroom. Try to logically understand the facts, and the reality of, certain situations. Work at experiencing and sharing compassion for life; animal, plant and mineral. Person, place and thing. Loving kindness for all that lives, including yourself is key. Once we have both logic and compassion for all situations; political, personal, environmental, and spiritual, we can act for Justice. We can choose for Justice. And we can experience justice, for all that lives, both within and without our human body.