Day 5 · Justice
Put justice on the dashboard
The dashboard is green. The people carrying the cost are absent from it. Marcus Aurelius measured action against the good of the larger body; Abraham is remembered here for teaching a household to do justice.
The source
For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Genesis 18:19 · King James Version
The thought
A decision can be efficient and still fail the common life. Justice begins by widening the frame until the least powerful affected person becomes visible. What is missing from the summary may be morally larger than everything inside it.
A task for today
Open one pending decision. Name the least powerful person affected and add one measure that reveals the cost they would otherwise carry invisibly.
Sources
Genesis 18:19 · Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.54 — the individual good cannot be severed from the common good · Fourteenth Amendment — equal protection under law · Islamic concept of adl — justice as right order and fair dealing
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