From an early age we are conditioned to believe in the concepts of justice and fairness. Since we’ve developed language to express these concepts we know too that we have the need to convey their absence; that is that there exists moments of unfairness and injustice. These moments are portrayed as an aberration, a mistake to be corrected… An intervention may be required but the arc of history can be bent towards these desirable concepts.
The underlying problem that cannot be avoided however is that for justice to be done and for fairness to prevail that an omniscient arbiter must exist (at least for the circumstances in question). In situations where the monarch’s justice or the church’s justice is inadequate justice may be delayed until the afterlife when our hearts are weighed against the feather of truth and justice. Even our children’s stories include references to an omniscient arbiter in the guise of Santa Claus who knows when you are sleeping and when you are awake.
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