Judge Of Life And Death

Judge Of Life And Death
© Surazeus
2019 01 28

Though I trust what my eyes perceive is real
I cannot always see the larger context
that frames single scenes of action with meaning,
so I accept concept defining truth
as real but partial till I see more scenes
to better know flow of cause and effect.

When I see one person hurting another
I want to stop their actions causing harm,
but what if that person deserves the pain
because they had hurt someone else before,
so observance of the isolated scene
may not reveal enough for me to judge.

We established our system of law courts
with objective judge we trust to rule well
by hearing testimony of their cause
from every person involved in the conflict,
and thus we develop the social state
organized around supreme right of law.

Since we rule against people killing people,
we must kill them to stop them killing others,
assigning official role to the person
we trust to play god and rule from tradition
as judge of life and death when they decide
who gets to live and breed, and who must die.

We humans practice constant genocide,
favoring members of our extensive tribes
by killing hostile men of other tribes
and breeding with their women to gestate
new generation of our stronger tribe
so we can dominate lands of the world.

Each nation worships founder of their tribe
as noble God with divine right to rule
and assimilate other human tribes
to adopt their superior way of life
with equality for all under law
till one United Nations rules the Earth,

I see no good or evil in this world,
for all religions favor rich success
of those descendants from their mortal god
who expand to convert all other tribes
to fulfill their mission of domination,
till one faceless god rules our entire globe.

That faceless God that all theists now worship
presents Idea of the Objective Judge
whom people trust to rule in court of law
based on the actions of our character
instead of membership in tribal race
to favor those who create, not destroy.