Rules should be put in place, so people are on the same page, but nothing should be illegal. If someone is breaking a rule, they have either a problem with the rule or they are breaking it to solve another problem. Understand why people are breaking the rule, and then rather then saying they can not do it and attempt to enforce punishment.. seek to help that individual to solve their problem.

People will always break rules if they find them unjust or they stand in the way of what they want or desire. If they do not break the rule, despite finding it unjust or its preventing them from doing their will, they will resent you for it. So why make things illegal. There is enough hate in the world without the need to inflict hate on an individual who will inevitably resent your energy and reflect that hatered right back at you! Trying to stop people from doing what they want to do only hurts and divides us all. People will always find a way to do what they desire anyways, if it means enough to them. The consequences of punishment are not that the action will end, but rather that when they break the rules they will now operate in fear and engage in high risk criminal activities to achieve their means, often putting others at risk in doing so. So instead offer solutions, or more desirable alternatives. No one would bother breaking the rule if they had a better, more convenient, or more appealing option. Think about it.. this applies to every situation other then mental illness, which incidents within it self would surly drop if we existed in such a world of love and support. Which bring me to my next point. Love.

Often it is those who hurt others the worst that have been hurt the worst. Those who have been hurt the worst deserve our greatest kindness and compassion. It is an instinct in our culture to hate those who have wronged you or others, but despite your right to do so, I believe that the opposite must be mastered to heal both that individual and this planet. Hate is a powerful energetic emotion. But this world is a mirror and reflects back what you put out. Our human instinct is to be defensive when under attack, and often the first reactor is to attack back. But doing so only fuels the fire of resentment. Hate is like a hot coal.. if you hang onto it.. you are only burning yourself. Forgiveness is not about making them right, what they did ok, or giving in.. It’s more so about releasing that resentment from your own psyche so you may be free of the pain it caused you.

In the Babemba tribe of South Africa, when a person acts irresponsibly or unjustly, he is placed in the centre of the village, alone and unfettered. All work ceases, and every man, woman, and child in the village gathers in a large circle around the accused individual.

Then each person in the tribe speaks to the accused, one at a time, each recalling the good things the person in the centre of the circle has done in his lifetime. Every incident, every experience that can be recalled with any detail and accuracy, is recounted.  All his positive attributes, good deeds, strengths, and kindnesses are recited carefully and at length.  This tribal ceremony often lasts for several days. What you speak about, you bring about, when you create an image in your mind of yourself or another, you are able to begin to see yourself or that other in that same light. Slowly manor-isms will change and you will watch that reality reshape to bring that vision into current reality. In the case of the Babemba, the accused reminds them selves of past versions of them selves, better version of them selves, and they will begin to act in accordance, with living up to that vision.

At the end, the tribal circle is broken, a joyous celebration takes place, and the person is symbolically and literally welcomed back into the tribe. This is metaphorically what we must do with our justice systems, and literally what we must begin to do in our own lives, if peace is ever to become reality on this planet. What we put out, is what we receive.