Ruth Michunovich
What Life has taught us is that every creature and plant, contain seeds of greatness within.
Like all seeds from the same tree, some sprout and take root and grow into magnificent specimens. Some never spout and some grow according to their space and proximity to the environment surrounding them.
While they may have started out with the same DNA from the seed pod. The difference is where they start and not where they end.
People who believe that the end justifies the means are the ones who would tell you that it's not fair that someone else has more (fill in the blank). They think every one should have the same amount of (fill in the blank). The acceptance of this concept is divisionary and creates victims and oppressors. The fulfilment of the end by justifying the means forever stops the individual from wanting to do better or have more or changing the status quo or fulfilling their own dreams and desires because the "society" is greater than the individuals and by doing more, they will never have the opportunity to hope for anything different.
This concept is equity.
The concept is that there is one society where every individual has the same income and lifestyle as everyone else. All earn the same, no matter the occupation or skill level except for the group who controls the storehouse and who allocates what occupation you have and where you can live.
Just like water, the lifestyle in such a society will equalize at the lowest point.
Those that believe people are born with seeds of greatness within and each individual has their own unique skills and talent that they can develop to achieve their dreams and desires, encourage others. They promote hope over adversity. Celebrating others work and effort that inspires others to be innovative and active to do the same.
This is equality.
The end is not the focus, it is the journey that every individual takes to the end. The belief that all individuals start life with what seeds they are born with and through their own choices to seek to grow or find ways to overcome diversity.
And like the massive and long living Redwood forests, a society that is governed by the will of its people will stand magnificent and strong.
Society is a concept it is not a being. It is forever changing like a cloud formation growing and billowing and bursting and reforming according to the elements. It has no legal rights. It has no moral compass. It has no compassion.
A society is defined as the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community. Communities of people are formed and dissipate according to the individuals and the individual choices they make which will affect the whole.
Individuals are not static entities. They form relationships based on many different facets of their individuality. As they grow and develop they change and so do their relationships.
Those new relationships form a collective of individuals and may be a subset of a larger society or singularly exclusive.
Justice is defined as the quality of being just. Just is defined as guided by truth, reason, and fairness.
A society has no moral compass nor legal right nor compassion cannot attain social justice by definition. It is the people who, within their own communities, determine what is truth, reasonable and fair.
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