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Q : I know, I know. It’s all very confusing. We’re all very . . . complex. We don’t want your judgments, but we do. We don’t want your punishments, yet we feel lost without them.
And when you say, as you’ve done consistently in every conversation we’ve ever had, “I will never punish you,” we cannot believe that—and some of us almost become angry about it. Because if you’re not going to judge and punish us, what will keep us walking the straight and narrow? And if there’s no “justice” in heaven, who will undo all the injustice on Earth?
“Justice” is not something you experience after you act a certain way, but because you act a certain way. Justice is an act, not punishment for an act.
Q: I see that the problem with our society is that we seek “justice” after an “injustice” has occurred, rather than “doing justice” in every single case, through the choices and actions of every single human being, in the first place.
Q : When everyone in our society acts justly, as every entity in an awakened species does, we will have no need for judgment and punishment as part of our civilization’s constructions.
Q : We have had parts of this present exchange in one of our previous conversations, in those exact words. Portions of what’s just been said are a verbatim transcript of a back-and-forth exchange we’ve had before. I’m glad we've repeated it here, like a memorized passage from a wonderful play or a favorite poem.