Background.
There are two people arguing about the existence of God. One believes the God is in every one of us. And it seems, true if God is all mighty and powerful, like I have argued in the chapter on Apple juice and existence of God. The other person is a believer in God, but not inside of us, but in outside. Now, to prove the point, he took a stone and hit a bystander who happened to walk by. He friend asked why did you do that?
Well, cannot I? You are the one who said, I am the God, and so does everyone else. So, does it matter, one God is doing a thing to another God. If you are telling me I am wrong, that there is no justice in that, both cannot be true at the same time.
Either there is justice, which is decided by the God.
Or there is no justice, when God lives in every one of us.
Agnostics Theist and Atheist
When you look at above argument some interesting facts arises. You may ask, well this is an argument about God, between two variations of theist. But, when we look at the question more carefully, from the Atheist point of view, we can see, believing God, is in every one of us is just as saying we are no different from each other, and no different from 'God'. So, everyone is equal. And if everyone is equal, then 'God' is just another name for human. So, truly speaking there is no definite barrier between, who believes that the God is living inside of us and an Atheist. Neither there is Agnostics. Agnostics neither believes and or denies existence of God. And if they were asked the same ethical question about justice of Good or bad, they will also have answers which align with an Atheist.
Deep dive into Justice?
So, does there exist something like justice, in its platonic form? If you would ask me, I would say, justice is another human made concept. All I can see are interwoven chaos of nature fluctuating to the disturbances of each other. Just like ripples of the sea. However, it is nice to think about things of God's realm, while we can. Following is a chapter on Justice in the book of what is time, which I think will reinforce the above Idea that the Justice is human made.
War crime and peace.
Fact that at war, crime is considered as less criminal
Let's imagine a criminal, let's imagine a criminal who has done a lot of crimes, serious crimes from theft to killing innocent men and women. Now imagine one day the criminal wakes up and realizes that he wants to become a good person. Despite all the crimes he has done his inner self awakens and decides that he is to end the criminal life forever. And he does go to the god’s court and asks for forgiveness. What do you think God should do? Should god punish him by sending him to a prison? Or should the god punish him inflicting the same pain as he has put others through? If the god is pure and kind, I would suggest otherwise. I would suggest the god will understand his good intentions and grant him permission to grant him to be good. Do not you agree, after all it is god. God is unlimited kindness, how can he be having evil thoughts like sending a man to the underworld? And the next question is somewhat difficult. Now imagine the same man, after God's punishment, he falls into the evils again and does another crime. This time he is facing the same God in the same court of justice and asked for forgiveness. What should God do this time? Should God punish the man? Or should God think this man has broken his words against the court, this time he should be punished more? I would suggest otherwise, if God is pure and kind, he will forgive the poor man, and further he will forgive each and every time he appears in the court. Until one day he will really keep his promise and never appear in court, he will be treated with kindness.
What we do in our courts today, are we practicing God's forgiveness and helping those who committed crimes to get out of their thoughts of harming others, or we are practicing evil against them, inflicting the same pain that they have caused others and expecting them to magically turn over to become good. How can we judge what someone does in some circumstances, as we know we are the ones who teach our children that diamonds and rubies are more valuable than common rocks. We are the ones who teach our children life is about pleasuring ourselves and taking care of ourselves, and give these measurement tools for measuring themselves. Now we blame them for becoming evil on their own? Have you ever not committed a crime, like even in mind, stolen from others, craved some richess, and wished someone evil? What if the circumstances were there for you to actually do it? Who is to be blamed? What court would you like to be in? The human court where you will be judged by fellow humans with the same human weakness, or the God’s court with kindness and love where you will be given a chance to reflect on yourself yet again.
Love is forgiveness, relentless, pure and repetitive, without any remorse. There would be less prisons, less divorces and less pain that we inflict on others if we understand the nature of love.
As the paragraph suggest, justice is another spectrum. This is why animal ethics is less important than human ethics. Life of a dog drowning is less important than a human drowning, hardly anyone who will risk their lives saving one. You can read more on cockroach ethics and dictators.
Thank you for reading, Agnostics Theist, Atheist and justice
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