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Post by Chancellor Cheri on May 6, 2021 23:26:49 GMT -5
Ward grew a tree in considerably shorter a period than trees usually allowed themselves to be grown in. However, Cheri was a bit more interested in that grand revelation that the shinjin could make life and, presumably had sparked life all across the galaxy. So there was still the question: was that propensity of life to take like shapes, such as taking the form of people or of trees, an evolutionary proclivity imparted by the shinjin at time of creation, or did shinjin have to come around and uplift promising species? Or, was it simply a matter that it was universal that exploiting certain evolutionary niches tended towards certain phenotypical attributes?
It was quite a peculiar system. The strongest of them, the highest of them and the longest lived were those who had been born from golden fruit; they had an innate advantage over all their peers simply because they had been born lucky. And there were others still who were exiled upon birth through no fault of their own. Cheri likened it, briefly, to government by sortition, which was a solid enough idea she decently liked, but the comparison just did not fit: for one, sortition worked best in terms, not life-long appointments, sortition did not make those who’d drawn the right lots ‘better’ as the golden fruit shinjin clearly seemed to be and no sortition ever sought to justify exiling by lottery. Any system which sought to make some people essentially and inherently better than some other people was not just. If this was what was responsible for creation at the top, the universe seemed absolutely screwed.
”And why is such a system in place? It certainly mustn’t have been chosen to be like that, after all it is not an appropriate system if the goal is providence in creation and a sustainable galaxy.” If the shinjin were not gods, whatever had brought this unjust system into being must have been, and almost certainly would have been either an especially evil or an especially foolish god.
It was quite a peculiar system. The strongest of them, the highest of them and the longest lived were those who had been born from golden fruit; they had an innate advantage over all their peers simply because they had been born lucky. And there were others still who were exiled upon birth through no fault of their own. Cheri likened it, briefly, to government by sortition, which was a solid enough idea she decently liked, but the comparison just did not fit: for one, sortition worked best in terms, not life-long appointments, sortition did not make those who’d drawn the right lots ‘better’ as the golden fruit shinjin clearly seemed to be and no sortition ever sought to justify exiling by lottery. Any system which sought to make some people essentially and inherently better than some other people was not just. If this was what was responsible for creation at the top, the universe seemed absolutely screwed.
”And why is such a system in place? It certainly mustn’t have been chosen to be like that, after all it is not an appropriate system if the goal is providence in creation and a sustainable galaxy.” If the shinjin were not gods, whatever had brought this unjust system into being must have been, and almost certainly would have been either an especially evil or an especially foolish god.
