j :
Look, I get it , some people love to throw out, “They broke the law, that’s the consequence.” And I always wonder, how do you say that and not see the pain right in front of you? When we talk about laws, we can’t lose sight of people. Human beings. Families. Children. Mothers. Fathers. When a bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, it was technically a command, an order carried out. But do we stop there? Do we stop seeing the suffering that followed? Do we just say, “Well, it was an order, so it’s fine.” No. We grieve. We acknowledge. We hold space for the pain that came after. That’s what being human demands of us. So when people casually dismiss it with, “Well, it’s the law,” I can’t help but ask, when did we stop letting empathy sit next to justice? When did we stop trying to find a better way? Laws don’t cancel out suffering. They don’t erase the responsibility we have to one another as human beings. We can make better laws. Fairer policies. Ones rooted in dignity. That was the vision at the start, not a perfect union, but one that could strive toward justice. The Founders gave us the ability to correct what causes harm, to rise when we fall short, to place humanity back at the center. Justice only works when it remembers the people it’s meant to serve.
2025-06-06 16:30:15