Justice!!!

People all seem to have a natural since of Justice.  We all want the bad guy to get it in the end, and the mean kid to get what's coming to them. But is that what we should really be focused on?

When we here about someone being accused of something, we usually think they are guilty regardless of how unlikely their guilt is.  When we hear of misfortune for those accused we often say "serves them right!"  But I've been around long enough to have seen the Innocent accused and the guilty go free.  How do we feel when the convicted are proven to be innocent?

Justice is a concept with a flaw in it ... the flaw is we are too flawed as humans to pick the right punishment for the crime.  We get it wrong too often to be considered a good judge.  Why do I bring this up?  Well, its been on my mind with some recent events in the news and I find myself thinking that we are stilled flawed and that our judgement should be slow, measured and only after thoughtful consideration.

More than anything we should be slow to act in matters of judgement and forgiving of those convicted cause we are seldom certain of anything when we are called to judge truth from lies, fact from fiction and real from imagined.

J