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   %DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE PRERE3QUISITE PEACE SHALOM 040907
%OBEY FORMAL LAWS COMMANDMENTS PRESCRIPTIONS TABOOS 040907
%PROSCRIPTIONS ORDERS EXPECTATIONS DOMINATION EVILS 040907
   %RELATIONSHIPS YIELDING SUBMISSIVELY CODEPENDENT 040907
%SUPPORTERS ADDICTS COLLUSIONS POWER CONCENTRATIONS 040907
%WEALTH INFLUENCE CREW SPACE-SHIP-EARTH CORRUPTIONS 040907
%GLOBAL CORPORATION MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX SIN 040907

     Justice is a pre-requisite to peace; somewhat more so
than that peace is a pre-requisite to justice.

     Justice is not only about people obeying formal laws;
but also about  wealthy, powerful, greedy  and domineering
people yielding to the principles of distributive-justice.
Justice  is  violated  when  power,   wealth,   influence,
management, and domination are concentrated into the hands
of  a  small  fraction  of the  total  population  of  any
community;   e.g.,  a  small fraction of the whole crew of
Space-Ship-Earth.

     The  greater is the concentration of power,   wealth,
influence,  controls and domination --- the greater is the
corruption  of  those  people into whose  hands  power  is
concentrated.    It  is  a  tragic  invitation-for-unjust-
corruption   ---    to  encourage  the  concentration   of
additional   power,   wealth,   influence,   controls  and
domination  ---   into  the hands of  the  most  powerful,
wealthy, influential,  and dominant people in a community.
Such concentrations of power, wealth,  influence, controls
and  dominance  rarely trickle down in  gracious  ways  to
facilitate   and   promote    personal   and/or   communal
integrations and integrities.

     The Myth-of-Redemptive-Violence is used  by  powerful
people to claim that the Violence-of-Concentrating: power,
wealth,  influence,  controls and domination ---  into the
hands of a small fraction of a whole community --- will be
good  for  the whole  community.    Distributive-injustice
leads to personal and communal disintegrations in one  way
or another way --- not to shalom, health, tranquility,  or
peace for all.  Domineering people do not rid the world of
domineering  people;   they merely fight over who will  be
the most domineering people around the world.  Domineering
people consistently lack personal and communal integrity.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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