I am Justified

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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Aren't we basically all justified in our actions?

    Has anyone performed an action that they felt was unjust at the time of performing it?

    Certainly upon reflection we can see the err of our ways. However, as I act I feel justified. Let me share a relevant story:

    One summer afternoon when I was 13, my brother and I were having a dispute over the living room stereo. He liked Garth Brooks and I like White Zombie, both of us had a distaste for each other's music. The dispute began with one of us changing the CD in the player, then other changed it back. This escalated into shouting and eventually physical violence.

    At that time, and for some time after, we both felt justified in our actions. Upon reflection I've learned a valuable lesson, escalation doesn't usually resolve conflicts. Most resolutions come about during a calm and collected conversation. However, there are times, a few times here recently, where this knowledge recedes and I escalate along with the discussion, all the while, feeling just in my actions.

    I'm sure everyone can relate to the story above and examine a similar situation in their life. If they do, I'm sure they will find that they felt justified as well. If I can't remember a situation where I did not feel justified in my actions. And I desire to share another's perspective, then I should imagine they feel justified in their actions as well.

    what i want to know is will you...

    justify my love.
  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    Apparently, this thread isn't about Justin Timberlake.

    How about those LOUISVILLE CARDINALS?!?!?!?
    Do you remember Rock & Roll Radio?
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    fanch75 wrote:
    Apparently, this thread isn't about Justin Timberlake.

    How about those LOUISVILLE CARDINALS?!?!?!?


    by george i think he's got it. :D
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    catefrances wrote:
    by george i think he's got it. :D

    You're right; this thread is about THE LOUISVILLE CARDINALS beating the University of Cincinnati in an upset victory. I have the urge to yell "Who Dey?!?" for some reason.
    Do you remember Rock & Roll Radio?
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    fanch75 wrote:
    You're right; this thread is about THE LOUISVILLE CARDINALS beating the University of Cincinnati in an upset victory. I have the urge to yell "Who Dey?!?" for some reason.

    of course i'm right. ;):D what's a cardinal?
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • puremagic
    puremagic Posts: 1,907
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Aren't we basically all justified in our actions?

    Has anyone performed an action that they felt was unjust at the time of performing it?

    Certainly upon reflection we can see the err of our ways. However, as I act I feel justified. Let me share a relevant story:

    One summer afternoon when I was 13, my brother and I were having a dispute over the living room stereo. He liked Garth Brooks and I like White Zombie, both of us had a distaste for each other's music. The dispute began with one of us changing the CD in the player, then other changed it back. This escalated into shouting and eventually physical violence.

    At that time, and for some time after, we both felt justified in our actions. Upon reflection I've learned a valuable lesson, escalation doesn't usually resolve conflicts. Most resolutions come about during a calm and collected conversation. However, there are times, a few times here recently, where this knowledge recedes and I escalate along with the discussion, all the while, feeling just in my actions.

    I'm sure everyone can relate to the story above and examine a similar situation in their life. If they do, I'm sure they will find that they felt justified as well. If I can't remember a situation where I did not feel justified in my actions. And I desire to share another's perspective, then I should imagine they feel justified in their actions as well.


    Simply put, just because you can rationalize an act, doesn't necessarily give the act justification.
    SIN EATERS--We take the moral excrement we find in this equation and we bury it down deep inside of us so that the rest of our case can stay pure. That is the job. We are morally indefensible and absolutely necessary.
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    puremagic wrote:
    Simply put, just because you can rationalize an act, doesn't necessarily give the act justification.

    It wasn't about social justice!

    You know Hanna and Antonio Damasio say that there are background emotions. In terms of background emotions, I was talking of justification.

    It really had nothing to do with social justice.

    *sigh*
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire

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