When Stars Had Eyes
“Justice was once heralded as the guide star of human civilization and the form of a life well lived. It still is the guiding light of human life, but it has become clouded by darkness in the modern day where we are no longer habituated to seeing justice as something noble. We do not love virtue like our predecessors did, and especially not cold justice which is used to invoke burdensome obligations against comfort and is so often put in tension with the cheerier (we imagine) traits of mercy and love.”