Ethics (Religion)

by BBella , Wednesday, October 01, 2008, 08:07 (5692 days ago) @ Carl

Carl wrote:
> Dhw speaks of the miscarriage of justice in execution of innocent people. Focusing only on executed persons in this way is too narrow. A innocent person who serves life in prison or even a year in prison is also a victim of the system. The issue of execution should not be combined with the issue of miscarried justice. The judicial system should be rigorous in its pursuit of justice, but it will never be 100%. Here is another area where absolute truth is not obtainable, and there can be terrible consequences of leaning to far toward the accused so that guilty people are freed to murder again. Both false positives and false negatives have bad consequences, and a balance must be struck to minimize both, because either way there will be innocent victims.> - I choose to think, that in life, where ever or whatever it is, there are no innocent victims. To think that way just doesn't seem to fit what is actually happening. It seems to me, that by all the information afforded mankind to know, karma seems to fit best our situation. No matter how far out it might seem to some...it makes the most reasonable sense to me. It explains to me, without explaining exactly how it is so, just how things work with the least complications. Of course, this thinking relieves me of all responsibility in trying to change my world to match up to my own idea of justice...and that's not a bad thing to me. My shoulders no longer feel so heavy believing this! This of course, does not relieve me of my personal responsibilities afforded me at any given time...after all, there is karma to take into account. - > Dhw says morality is pursuit of happiness in such a way that it causes minimal harm to humanity and to other forms of life, but "humans are too diverse to create a just world."> - It seems to me, if I would leave justice solely in human hands, I would one day leave this world with a little hope things might one day become somehow even "more" just than it is has already become...especially for the innocent...and this feels like a hopeless feeling. Yet, if there is such thing as karma, then it seems so much easier to live somewhat more peacefully now, trusting in that which I cannot know, rather than that which I do, to regulate justice to all....not just now, but always, to all things. This karmic "action" could be considered by some "God" and this trust, faith. Is there any proof that there is such a thing as karma? Only if you seek proof.