If people live in fear of punishment for doing the wrong thing, few will do it.
If a person does not fear punishment, the person is free.
Fear of punishment gives the punisher power over the punished.
Those who do not believe in punishment can live in peace.
Some people believe that it is better to be the punisher than the punished.
These people identify with the attacker and live in fear of disobedience.
Those who live by the Tao do not punish and are not punishable.
Those who live by the Tao journey on a different path, free of fear, in Love.
Unitarian Univeralists live in a covenant to affirm and promote seven principles. These principles have nothing to do with punishing or being punished. The UU covenant takes its participants on a different path in life respecting the Tao, the interdependent web of all existence which can't be named, and affirming the inherent worth and dignity of all people.
Pure thoughts are dead and still
ReplyDeleteWhile lust and murder wakes to stain and kill.
Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucree