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What does it mean?
Justice based on love involves surrender, while justice based on law involves punishment.
In plain terms
Love gives justice through giving in; law gives justice through punishment.
What can you take from it?
Choose restorative justice over punitive justice.

Where it applies

  • court systems
  • conflict resolution
  • personal disputes

Putting it to work

  • mediation
  • rehabilitation
  • restoration

Questions to consider

  • Should justice heal or punish?
  • How does love change legal outcomes?

Another view

It oversimplifies the role of law in maintaining order.

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