Website owner: James Miller
Wrong no man -- in word or in action. Harm no man. I think that is a very important principle to live by. You can do a person a wrong by doing some act against him that he doesn't deserve. One important way people often do another person an injustice is by making untrue statements about them -- speaking against them in some way, saying something about them that is untrue. It has always been very important to me that I do not say anything that is untrue about another. I have always instinctively been very careful and conscientious about anything I say about another person. Even someone I don't like, even an enemy. I don't want to be guilty of doing anybody an injustice. Would it bother most people to know they have said something untrue about another? I don't know. But it would certainly bother me. For me, I don't want to even think untrue or unfair things of another person. It is important to me that I be honest about them, even in my thoughts and opinions. Consequently I tend to give others the benefit of the doubt. I assume the best until I discover otherwise. If I am unsure I admit I am unsure. I don't want to do them an injustice, even in my thoughts. What can cause a person to think or say untrue things of another? Malice, hatred, bitterness, jealousy, overactive imagination. What is it deep within a person, within the heart or spirit of a person, that makes him not want to wrong anyone? What is the origin of this sense of right, this sense of justice, that restrains a person in this way? Jan 1997
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