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November 2009 
if you were a judge, what sort would you be?
Posted on Jul 3rd, 2009
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Ted
Ted
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for July 03, 2009:
I would not be a judge in the legal system - the whole concept is anathema to me.
I do not believe that there ought to be any external judge of our behaviour.
I do believe that we need a couple of rules to allow people to live together peacefully.
1 Do not kill any self aware entity.
2 Do not restrict the freedom of any other self aware entity unless to preserve the life of another.
From that all else can be derived.
A responsibility to respect property comes from the use of that property as a tool in the survival or freedom of an individual.
A responsibility (duty of care) for the environment and all other living systems comes from their necessity in our own survival - if one starts to understand the intimate inter-relationships of all living systems.
So - for the most part - I would eliminate "the law" all-together.
No legal system can possibly given appropriate responses in all circumstances. A responsible and aware individual will always make a better decision than "the law".
The problem is getting individuals to the state where they are "aware and responsible".
It is happening.
It is growing exponentially.
Is the rate of increase fast enough?
So - I'll be judge of my own choices, and let you be judge of your choices.
I do not believe that there ought to be any external judge of our behaviour.
I do believe that we need a couple of rules to allow people to live together peacefully.
1 Do not kill any self aware entity.
2 Do not restrict the freedom of any other self aware entity unless to preserve the life of another.
From that all else can be derived.
A responsibility to respect property comes from the use of that property as a tool in the survival or freedom of an individual.
A responsibility (duty of care) for the environment and all other living systems comes from their necessity in our own survival - if one starts to understand the intimate inter-relationships of all living systems.
So - for the most part - I would eliminate "the law" all-together.
No legal system can possibly given appropriate responses in all circumstances. A responsible and aware individual will always make a better decision than "the law".
The problem is getting individuals to the state where they are "aware and responsible".
It is happening.
It is growing exponentially.
Is the rate of increase fast enough?
So - I'll be judge of my own choices, and let you be judge of your choices.
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You said it all in your summation: “I'll be judge of my own choices, and let you be judge of your choices.”
Are you being in the Now when you are judging yourself?
Two questions in there I think.
In what sense “judgement” ?
Which “I” ?
The sense of judgement that I use is the sense of bringing together the highest values of the ego, with an awareness of the intuitions of the moment - and making the instantaneous judgment that is the movement to action.
In that sense, the judgement is the root of morality, the cause of causes, the ownership of being.
It is not a sense of “pontificating” about the past, but rather a sense immersion in the present, being responsable for the choice - exercising judgement - in the sense of contribution.