Let's Be Fair

My motive for this blog is to make complex things simple. I am a details person so forgive me for digressing into them once in a while as in the last post. This will be short and to the point…

We cannot cover every injustice by making laws. There is an expectation of fairness between people that shouldn't depend upon laws. We have our broad written laws, people’s opinions that can be even broader and then we have what is actually fair for each situation. Each situation has rules of  fairness that are written in our hearts. Good people that know all the particulars will also recognize what is fair.

In order to treat ourselves well and treat others the same, we practice virtue; using our passions and acts how they benefit the most to bring the most happiness. Good laws will be based in this while forbidding vice. Should our laws be used to educate everyone for the common good? Whose responsibility is it to produce good people and the resulting happiness? We can address this in more depth later but it seems to be a function of society in some ways but also an individual responsibility in others.

A person can appear good publicly, but does that make him a good person? Any country will have good and bad people while their culture might have different definitions of good. There are always pretenders and players and those who are genuine regardless of the cultural norms that surround them. This is true in church and family associations also. We seek the genuine in everything without having to lay down the law to produce pretenders. Let's examine how we come to agreement concerning what is just. It will take a little trip through particulars but I promise it will be sweet...