#rightousness
“It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.” - Bob Marley
Photographer:Guido Harari
Location Of Photograph: London, England. 1976
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A few months ago, while doing some thinking, I was faced with the following question.
“If the well-being of a group of innocent and powerless people depends on you having power over an opposing party, who seeks the power you have, only to use these people, with no regard for their lives or well-being, how far are you willing to go to protect these people from such a fate?”
Heavy stuff, sure. I realized, though, the question is seemingly easy to answer, so long as neither party is willing to break any rules, laws or various codes of ethics. In which case, one would do everything they can to win the “game,” fairly. It’s only when the opposing party is willing to do things that are unjust and challenge your ability to righteously win the game, that you are tested.
If you are unwilling to do the unjust things that your opponent is willing to do, to win, your righteousness gives the advantage to your evil opposition. Is your righteousness more important than the remaining lifespans of those innocent and powerless people, who are depending on you? Are you willing to sacrifice their well-being for the selfishness of “sticking to your principles?”
I thought about how often evil prevails, only because it’s willing to do whatever is necessary to get what it wants, and how much of a disservice good people do to the people whom depend on them, by losing battles they don’t have to, only because they value their own ethical limits more than they value what they’re actually fighting for.
If ever you have the power to save innocent people from a Hell they wish not, and deserve not, to go to, understand that in the event preserving justice calls for you to be unjust, and your ethical limitations don’t allow you to do what is necessary, you will surrender justice. If there is anything, at all, that is powerful enough to limit how far you will go to preserve justice, you are unfit to fight a battle of such importance.
It’s a hard line to cross, to do bad, in order to preserve good. However, a man with limits will never beat a man without. And although those you fight for may eventually crucify you, remember that there comes a time where big men must learn to be small men and that sacrifice is for the chosen.
