Is Love Higher Than Justice?

  • Do you think love is higher than justice? If so, then it turns out you needn't seek justice at all.
  • Love is higher, yes. But will you be able not to seek justice? Or will you deceive yourself and pretend not to seek it, while inside, subconsciously, you keep turning it over.
  • I don't know, you have to come to terms with it somehow, I suppose.
  • There's no point in self-deception, it's useless anyway. Why did Christ not resign himself and go on with his Preaching, even though it led him to the cross?
  • Well, that's Christ...
  • There's a particle of him in you too, so why do you give up? Be honest with yourself.
  • And what if it's not an abstract injustice but a concrete one, one that applies to you?
  • Here's where it gets hardest. You have to accept it. Not try to paper over it, but accept it. Those are different things. You must say: yes, this is unjust, but I must accept it. Not come to love it — that's impossible.
  • Then what is love in this situation?
  • Love is directed at the cause of your endurance, at that for whose sake you accept the injustice. And the injustice vanishes at once, anyway. Emil Cioran wrote:

    “The great and only original trait of love is that it makes happiness indistinguishable from unhappiness.”