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%EMOTIONAL JUSTICE 760902
Justice is usually regarded as pertaining to the
control of possessions, economic factors, political power,
and physical injury. Rarely is justice viewed as relevant
to emotional relationships. Even where it is within
marriage, the institution of marriage is defined in terms
of capitalistic categories: possession, exclusion, con-
trol, ownership, rights, responsibilities, profit, cost,
etc. Such justice is defined in very technical,
legalistic, terms. Such, justice is mediated by
technically oriented specialists: policemen, case workers,
lawyers and judges. Under such circumstances, justice
tends to involve a contest in which the game played is
based upon capitalistic desires to win at the expense of
the other.
At a humane level, emotional justice involves mutual
vulnerability and full reciprocity. The participants in
such an emotional relationship are each equally vulnerable
to what the relationship will make of them, with none of
them unilaterally controlling the relationship. The
participants are not unchanging elements which are
interacting with each other to create the emotional
relationship, as much as they are subjects of the
relationship---vulnerable to the changes in them which the
relationship may prompt. In such a humane relationship
emotional justice is not a technical consideration, one
where computations can balance the equation of fairness.
Emotional justice, rather, has to do with whether there is
mutual awareness and mutual understanding within a context
of mutual vulnerability to a relationship which transcends
the participants. Thus, justice cannot be determined by
technicians who stand outside the relationship. Justice
is not an objective fact, but a subjective reality. Such
a justice, which is at one with Love, is what empowers
the participants to grow within a society which is
characterized by what technicians may rightly describe as
objective justice. Such objective justice does not flow
from technical definitions of right behavior. Such
technical definitions may properly pass judgement to the
effect that justice is absent, but they cannot succeed in
creating justice when it is absent. The law cannot reduce
estrangement which occasions injustice---by accurately
describing the injustice or in any other way. Only a love
which has integrity (bringing together agape, eros and
philos) can do that.
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