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Monday, February 20, 2006

Someone asked me this question a few days ago :

"What is the meaning of Freedom and Justice?"

At first I put it off as a childish thought about those Gundam things, but when I put some thought into it, I realized that there was actually some meaning to it after all. Let's see. This is a little something I wrote down out of inspiration during a break between classes.

What is Freedom & Justice? What is the meaning, the story, their purpose?

Freedom is the right of all mankind to do whatever they please at their comfort, it is a fine fabric with a very fragile threading which must be treated and handled very carefully. Acts of evil, greed and lust for example, evils that man have committed up to this day, strains this Freedom, pulling hard on the thin fabric of Freedom that gets us by everyday of our lives. It is this Freedom that all mankind needs to survive, or it would be no different than to be ruled with an iron fist, with no rights whatsoever. If Freedom is misused, misunderstood, if it is exploited by underhand means for personal gains, then chaos will break loose. And that is why we have Justice to enforce law and order on the people, to sufficiently restrict and restrain the use of Freedom, while not condemning and withdrawing the right of it.

Justice, on the other hand, in my view, is never fair. The law is sometimes blind, and most frustratingly and disappointingly, not everyone may think the same as you, and not everyone is as pure of heart as one may think. Justice may come by chance, it comes by predestiny; Justice cannot truly be served by man alone, because it is man who is unjust, it is man who is biased, unfair, untrustworthy. Man can be consumed by greed, suffer the fatal seduction of wealth and worldly possessions and other things that he may find beneficial to himself. Ultimately, it will be man who will be judged by God when he dies, who is, of course, the most Fair and Just. The true meaning of Justice lies above Earth, not on it. No man has the right to judge upon another; no man can tell what is truly right or wrong. Man can suffer the brunt of Justice, while others enforce it upon him. The truth is, Man cannot handle Justice.

Without Freedom, there will be no Justice. But without Justice, Freedom will run right out of control; the pure and complete right and extension of Freedom will destroy us all if not used carefully. Without Justice, Freedom will end the world all on its own; crime will be rife, wars will erupt, men, women and children will be sacrificed. The world will start from scratch, without Freedom and Justice to begin with, because it is these two which supposedly betrayed Man in the first place. The point is, Freedom cannot exist without Justice.

Freedom and Justice. What does it mean to you?

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