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I thought it was only really children like me who had an innate sense of justice. But it is all children, and all adults*.
Even tyrants (and little tyrants) have a sense of justice; but in their case justice is weighted entirely in their favour: it is right that I do this to someone, and wrong that they do it to me.
Fortunately tyrants are very rare. Most others are born into a world for which negotiated justice is foundational - they learn it from their parents, from their peers, from shop keepers and so on. It is an essential element of human relations, necessary for any 'free' relationship (trade etc.).
Well, I said 'negotiated justice'. In the absense of negotiation (tyrany) or when one person refuses to negotiate (let's them self be used), justice, perhaps, simply becomes 'getting away with what you can' . In any case, it becomes a principle from that point on - if one cannot get away with something, then that becomes a principle also (provided they have not in the past gotten away with it).
I have some terrible children.
hehe, my mother insisted I read a book, called "know the fair rule", about classroom discipline. I didn't. I wish I had.
She was pushing the book on to me, partly to help me, but also to prove that her job (teaching) was difficult and not just anyone could do it, and I stubbornly rebelled against this sort-of ... eck.
They always say "most teachers come in, wanting to be the student's best friend ... it is better to come in hard, and then relax up later".
I didn't think this advice applied to me because I had no interest in being the student's friend (I thought). But, I now realise, hard first relax later still applies to me!
I walk in, some kid is playing with lego, I ignore him - let him play - I teach the class. THEN he "makes" a rule that he is always allowed to play. I don't care, I'll teach the other kids. But then he begins distracting them. It becomes worse and worse. (I now have this kid 5 days a week, 5 days in a row. MY GOD!!!)
Some student tries to hit me. What do I care? I'm 10 times as strong, so I simply ignore them. But then they make a habit of trying to hit me. Blahhhh.
"express your boundaries" even if you don't feel the need for any, invent them, and make them far far away from your actual boundaries.
I have some great kids too though, some who will stand up and reprimand a bully (help me!) based on their own scale of justice, which has been violated.
Sheesh.
Ramble ramble ramble.
Today
* bought a guitar - it was expensive $45, but in truth it is better than my favourite one back home (like a favourite toy, raggedy and used). The store insisted that it was for children - a 3/4 nylon classical. I played a similar sized 'folk' guitar, steel strung - god it was awful.
classical vs acoustic? I had never heard this distinction before. Classicals are acoustic. But apparently the distinction is quite common.
The shop I bought it from also makes guitars - a luthier, but expensive and nice ones. Perhaps some other time.
--
THEN I went home and my key snapped off in the lock ---
I went and borrowed some tweezers from a key cutter and removed the broken bit, but the lock no longer worked. 4 hours later, here I am back at home with a new lock barrel.
the lock was picked, before that it was 'rattled' and some thin plastic stuffed in in and did something more with a pick and forced it with a screwdriver.
AHHHH
so tired.
:)
*it's funny that I should write those words, given that this is very similar to what my thesis was (supposed to be) about: that in order to act societies, as well as individuals, generally require the supposition of their justness - that whatever they are doing is the right thing, or at least righter than whatever their enemy is doing.
I suppose the difference with the above is the 'negotiation' aspect. Maybe. Zzzz.
Even tyrants (and little tyrants) have a sense of justice; but in their case justice is weighted entirely in their favour: it is right that I do this to someone, and wrong that they do it to me.
Fortunately tyrants are very rare. Most others are born into a world for which negotiated justice is foundational - they learn it from their parents, from their peers, from shop keepers and so on. It is an essential element of human relations, necessary for any 'free' relationship (trade etc.).
Well, I said 'negotiated justice'. In the absense of negotiation (tyrany) or when one person refuses to negotiate (let's them self be used), justice, perhaps, simply becomes 'getting away with what you can' . In any case, it becomes a principle from that point on - if one cannot get away with something, then that becomes a principle also (provided they have not in the past gotten away with it).
I have some terrible children.
hehe, my mother insisted I read a book, called "know the fair rule", about classroom discipline. I didn't. I wish I had.
She was pushing the book on to me, partly to help me, but also to prove that her job (teaching) was difficult and not just anyone could do it, and I stubbornly rebelled against this sort-of ... eck.
They always say "most teachers come in, wanting to be the student's best friend ... it is better to come in hard, and then relax up later".
I didn't think this advice applied to me because I had no interest in being the student's friend (I thought). But, I now realise, hard first relax later still applies to me!
I walk in, some kid is playing with lego, I ignore him - let him play - I teach the class. THEN he "makes" a rule that he is always allowed to play. I don't care, I'll teach the other kids. But then he begins distracting them. It becomes worse and worse. (I now have this kid 5 days a week, 5 days in a row. MY GOD!!!)
Some student tries to hit me. What do I care? I'm 10 times as strong, so I simply ignore them. But then they make a habit of trying to hit me. Blahhhh.
"express your boundaries" even if you don't feel the need for any, invent them, and make them far far away from your actual boundaries.
I have some great kids too though, some who will stand up and reprimand a bully (help me!) based on their own scale of justice, which has been violated.
Sheesh.
Ramble ramble ramble.
Today
* bought a guitar - it was expensive $45, but in truth it is better than my favourite one back home (like a favourite toy, raggedy and used). The store insisted that it was for children - a 3/4 nylon classical. I played a similar sized 'folk' guitar, steel strung - god it was awful.
classical vs acoustic? I had never heard this distinction before. Classicals are acoustic. But apparently the distinction is quite common.
The shop I bought it from also makes guitars - a luthier, but expensive and nice ones. Perhaps some other time.
--
THEN I went home and my key snapped off in the lock ---
I went and borrowed some tweezers from a key cutter and removed the broken bit, but the lock no longer worked. 4 hours later, here I am back at home with a new lock barrel.
the lock was picked, before that it was 'rattled' and some thin plastic stuffed in in and did something more with a pick and forced it with a screwdriver.
AHHHH
so tired.
:)
*it's funny that I should write those words, given that this is very similar to what my thesis was (supposed to be) about: that in order to act societies, as well as individuals, generally require the supposition of their justness - that whatever they are doing is the right thing, or at least righter than whatever their enemy is doing.
I suppose the difference with the above is the 'negotiation' aspect. Maybe. Zzzz.