The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
Sigmund Freud

I was thinking about justice versus compassion and all that goes into it for society to work and it sounds GREAT.  How G-d gave us a heart because he wanted us to use it.  BUT, our heads and brains were ALWAYS supposed to lead our hearts.  If we base our lives on heart and feeling……what a mess our lives would be.  Imagine, ‘I don’t FEEL like going to work.’  ‘My heart tells me I should get to stay home.’  But the whole idea is for the brain to kick in and say, I need to do the right thing, get up, do my work and live up to my responsibilities. 

The other cool thing is that compassion can’t exist without justice.  You couldn’t possibly know what one is without the other.  We are granted compassion on a constant basis when we don’t suffer as we should for the things that we have done.  If we ‘deserve’ a speeding ticket when the officer pulls us over but he lets us go with a warning, that doesn’t change that we DESERVED the ticket (not that it has ever happened to me).  But we feel grateful because we were spared from the justice we deserved.  Compassion cannot exist without justice.  But if justice isn’t the rule, then society starts to break. 

Often, when we are younger we think that compassion should rule.  It sounds nice and peaceful and uptopian.  But really, without many speeding tickets, who would obey the rules that are set out for safety?  Without penalties, how many would break the law?  Even more than now?  As people mature, they realize that life requires justice and laws to instill appreciation for compassion.  It shows the height of immaturity not to see that……you might say ‘left’ brain immaturity!

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Some people really do know what they believe.   I know it’s a shock.  I know there are those that just CAN’T accept that it is possible….but there are those that move according to the direction of opinion depending on who they are trying to impress, and there are those that actually know what they believe.

Study in contrast…..the interview that both John McCain and Barak Obama had over the weekend with Rick Warren (of Purpose Driven Life fame).  Both were asked the same questions.  Obama went first while McCain had to wait offstage where he couldn’t hear the questions.  Then, Obama went off stage and McCain got his chance.

His answers were decisive.  To be honest, I have not always been a McCain fan but he was great…I confess myself impressed.  Obama was stuttery and unprepared.  He does NOT do well without a script….I have known that for some time now but it always makes an impression.

So what do we hear from the Obama camp today???  Wahhhh….McCain cheated.  He heard.  He already knew….  IF, however, Obama had been the godlike one they all took him for, he would have knows the questions in advance.  Either way, if he was SO SO SO great, he still would have beaten McCain even if McCain had cheated….SO, whatever.  He didn’t know.  IF, Obama had done better, we would be hearing…”See????  We told you!”  What they don’t get is, there are people who say what they believe and when you do that, it is easy to respond.  Not hard at all.  When you are trying to walk on eggshells to keep your party happy, it is much harder….lies are harder to keep straight than the truth.  ‘Let your yes be yes and your no be no’.

HELLO…..MCFLY……get over it!!!