Caution: I am not a lawyer
Situation 1 – One man has a company settle a lawsuit in his favor. The man uses respectful nice words and makes peace in amicable ways with the company.
Situation 2 – Another man has a company settle a lawsuit in his favor. The man uses mean harsh words, I told you so, go fuck yourself kind of speech with the company after winning.
Imagine the man from Situation 1 has something bad happen in their life at a later date.
Imagine the man from Situation 2 has something bad happen in their life at a later date.
What is the different from the two scenarios? Man from situation 1 might be more easy to rule out the company as a potential cause. Man from situation 2 might have more potential causes to factor in. Less complexity sometimes very valuable, making peace early and in advance is powerful.
Situation 1 – A city removes a Church from being a part of it. Bad things start to happen.
Situation 2 – A city does not remove a Church from being a part of it. Bad things start to happen.
Two separate events does not equate to causality. There will likely be people striving for narrative control in either case. While I am a Christian, I might understand with situations like Salem Witch Trials, Jonestown, and David Koresh might make people not want a Church as part of their city. There are many Churches that promote don’t steal, don’t murder, love your neighbor, generosity that helps facilitate peace.
People like to make decisions based upon experience in life, sometimes causality gets wrapped up in proximity in time or space to events that might be less than all truth, all necessary variables to factor in.
I don’t want to be murdered, I don’t want to be fed poison, and I don’t want women set to witches that can be burned on the stake, torture seen as light, approved for all. There is pain in life, the wrong kind of pain killers could lead to overdose deaths that I do not want, and I don’t think increased pain A’s value out A’s comprehension in.
I could easily be the man from Situation 1 or Situation 2 above – less magnitude of pain could likely factor into more likely to be the man from Situation 1. Imagine a criminal justice system takes 30 years of an innocent man’s life or 3 months of their life. Which one is more likely to lead to Situation 1 kind of man? WW2 happened many, many years after Christ. The same kind of injustice that lead to Christ’s crucifixion is still in by design – it would be nice to set to impossible. New complexity that obfuscates truth grows at an exponential rate on our planet – we didn’t use to have supercomputers, quantum computers are on the horizon. Injustice seen as less feasible, practical to build a case on facilitates less injustice in my opinion, though reminder I am not a lawyer.
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