Fairness is the Standard Against which Justice is Measured | Steve Beckow

By Steve Beckow, May 10, 2023

(Golden Age of Gaia)

We’re entering a phase of our Ascension characterized by truth, justice, and reconciliation.

I wanted to enquire here into what justice is. Not as philosophers look at it, but just from an ordinary, commonsensical standpoint.

I “dispensed justice,” as we think of it, as a Member of the Immigration and Refugee Board. (1) It was a tremendous honor to be tasked with doing that work and it was very serious.

What justice meant for me was “fairness.” Whatever the society in question considered to be fair was what was fair.

It was for instance a reviewable error for me to impose western values on a refugee from Asia or to see their circumstances through a western filter, if at all avoidable. (In a time of war, it might be unavoidable.)

A fair standard of value in one country might be gold; in another country – say, my own in a former century – it might be beaver pelts. It’s what the society considers fair.

Sometimes “equal” is not fair. For instance, a disabled person may have higher costs than an able person. A fifty/fifty division may be equal but not fair; that is, not equitable.

Thus “equal” becomes “equitable” to take into account special circumstances like disability or illness.

But always what’s arrived at needs to be fair. If not, justice is expected to redress the balance.

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All the justice that the Alliance hands out needs not only to be fair but to be seen as fair. (2)

But there’s another dimension to justice.

It also has to be wise. To gift a woman with a court settlement of $50,000 in some countries, deposited in her bank account, might be a death sentence. She could be killed for the money. The settlement is fair; it’s just; but how it’s carried out – or even awarding it – may be unwise.

At the IRB, we were expected to study and know the country conditions to see whether our judgments were not only fair but wise in the environment that existed there.

And so it went.

Our task now is to arrest the criminals, try them, and dispense justice. I hope the executions end but only public pressure may bring that about.

Even if we don’t have the insight into rehabilitation now that allows us to consider rehabilitating mass murderers and child traffickers, because the vibrations are rising, two things can happen.

One, we will have the wisdom when the vibrations rise high enough. Or two, the recalcitrant will have left because they’re unable to tolerate the higher frequencies.

There’s no need for us to usher in a Golden Age over top of a wave of repression. A wave of love, yes. A wave of punishment, no.

Footnotes

(1) I was what was called a community Member, not a legal Member, there to reflect community values rather than refine legal principles.

(2) I know of no system of justice in the higher dimensions that would see execution as just or fair.