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Legal V Justice
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In capitalist economies one finds a Legal System, as opposed to a Justice system. A Justice system concerns itself with balancing the needs of the individual versus society, and creates laws that favor both. The Laws and Judgments are acknowledged by society to be fair, or are changed. At it's highest level it attempts to restore our faith in a fair and just universe.
A legal system, on the other hand, is unrelated to justice. A legal system is it's own economy, by which both laws and justice can be purchased for those bidders willing to spend enough time and money to rewrite the laws to their own end, or prevail their point of view over their opponents.
A Justice system does not favor wealth, rather it favors fairness. The Legal system, transparently favors those who are willing and possessed of the means to invest in it.
For a justice system to work it must be unbiased, and have laws that are readily understandable and available to the citizenry it represents. Lawyers are not a part of any real justice system, as they by their very presence represent both money and power and an adversarial approach to the issues being decided upon. Those points of view without the resources to bring a paid voice to court will simply not be heard, and laws will be made without consideration for their rights or interests.
Corporations represent some of the biggest threats to justice, wherein the fiction of personhood extends to them all the rights and privileges, yet profits are actively used to lobby and absolve them of any responsibilities. Examples of laws created by corporations, not people, include the copyright and piracy laws (many of which actively engages in suing real people for both real and imagined piracy and copyright violations), and the corporate taxation laws, many of which would be the envy of any individual.
For more ideas and reading on these themes, follow the links below:
Link: The more unequal your society, the more your laws will favor the rich
Link: Georgia claims it's laws are under copyright & Georgia sues citizen for publishing law
Link: http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-powers-and-abuses-of-americas-mega-corporations/5371901
Jar Jar Binks
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And from this reddit user (redditor?) comes perhaps the most coherent and well thought out argument ever as to the direction the Star Wars franchise is heading...
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/3qvj6w/theory_jar_jar_binks_was_a_trained_force_user/
Absolutely brilliant, and cleverly explains a lot of otherwise puzzling incongruities in the series. That said, who, really, has that kind of time to think about it?
Greg VS Mouse
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With fall rapidly approaching we've acquired a mouse. Everyone in the kitchen has seen it, we've seen it in the dining room, bar, now the question is to catch it.
We've had these infestations before, always managed to catch them all, the tell-tale droppings on the table cloth, in the bread, this, a single mouse, maybe two, we'll round them up....
But it's Greg VS Mouse, and I have a pretty strong feeling that it will be Greg that is outwitted.
Picture an animated Ren and Stimpy type cartoon, only Greg as the older, alcoholic bartender, short, burly Italian, red nose, standing behind the bar in the swarm of fruitflies he's been trying to exterminate now for a year...he looks like nothing so much as a miniature french bulldog, those anxious, sad, worried eyes...
And mouse, confidently running about the dining room, bar, kitchen...
In any battle of the wits, Mouse is sure to win...
Every week, Greg lays traps, baits them with the finest cheeses. Every week, mouse eludes him. Every week, Greg orders more ACME products, all of which somehow backfire ridiculously, the mouse does the same on his days off, but the mouses plans are better laid, they work out better. Think Tom and Jerry, Wile E Coyote and Roadrunner...
It's the live re-enactment of a cartoon, and all I have to do is watch. The Mouse will be fine...
Question, Reject all Authority
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We are surrounded by the voices of authority, few of which are even remotely in a position to advise us.
Look at the means by which we are advised - television, for many, the most absurd. Every science officer on the USS Enterprise and Voyager have at one time or another been paid to voice-over science shows - 7 of 9, Geordi, and Spock, absurd that they are in any way qualified - as actors, yes, as representatives of science or reason, no, and yet it's an inane formula repeated time and time again, their voices alone, from having played fantasy characters in fantasy "science" fiction movies set in the fantasy future is enough to lend credibility to whatever "science idea" you're trying to promote. It's ludicrous.
Consider celebrity, every celebrity having used their elevated status to advise us on issues of health, religion (think Tom Cruise...), ethical treatment of animals, vegetarianism, you can't quote the cause that some celebrity hasn't thrown their status and presumed expertise behind to endorse.
There's politics, being a politician - an elected position with no formal qualifications whatsoever (whatever qualifications are incidental, not required), yet upon achieving office they are now authority figures that not only advise but enforce policies on morality, crime, environment, taxation and business. The lately dethroned Harper is one such example; from a background in economics he created and enforced policies on immigration, censorship, environment, etc., many with a devastating legacy and effect.
And there's wealth - possession of which alone is enough for many people to consider you not only an authority on wealth, but on happiness, family values, charity, politics and spirituality.
None of these "authorities" are even slightly credible, yet their voices abound and clamor to be heard, very often over those better qualified to advise or promote the cause. Think Donald Trump.
This is a segue into another argument I'll be making shortly, in the meantime I'd suggest you reject all authority until you've entirely done your research. Or, at the very least, question it heavily..
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