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%LOVE AND INJUSTICE 780327
It seems natural to expect love to eliminate
injustice, tragedy, and suffering; or at least to be a
power unambiguously working for their elimination with
some hope of timely success in the venture. It therefore
comes as a baffling disappointment to discover that love
does not necessarily have the power to eliminate
injustice, tragedy, and/or suffering---and even more
baffling to discover that often love increases our
awareness of injustice, tragedy, and suffering through
increases sensitivity. It thus appears that love
increases injustice, tragedy, and suffering---rather than
decreasing them. Love thus appears counter-productive and
of doubtful value.
To evaluate love in terms of it's usefulness in
eliminating injustice, tragedy, and suffering---is to
raise justice, the avoidance of tragedy, and the avoidance
of suffering to the level of ultimate concerns.
Experience indicates, however, that it is counter-
productive to: (1) Seek perfect justice, (2) Try to
eliminate all tragedy, (3) Eliminate all suffering.
Perfect justice is impossible because the best that
can be done is to equitable distribute injustice with
love. It is impossible to fulfill everybody's
expectations---so the failure of fulfillment will occasion
the perception of injustice. Attempts to assure the
fulfillment of one person's expectations will occasion
conflict with attempts to assure the fulfillment of
another person's expectations---and such conflict will
occasion injustice which will be distributed one way or
another.
It is impossible to eliminate tragedy because tragedy
is of it's essence a consequence of a conflict between
ultimate values, a result of people doing their best to be
faithful to the best they know. Trying to eliminate
tragedy in terms of the best we know will not guarantee a
transcendence of tragedy. We fail.
The elimination of all suffering would call for the
elimination of all sensitivity---and so the generation of
the suffering of a meaningless existence.
Love cannot eliminate injustice, tragedy, and
suffering---it can help people who are suffering injustice
and tragedy share their lives together in meaningful ways
which bind them together, rather than drive them apart in
conflict.
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