Beep, boop, etc.

It is possible that minor epiphanies are all reality can be.

I was backing my brother’s decrepit Honda out of my driveway when the librarian stylized ramble of NPR intruded in on my concentration. The story was about the impending confirmation of the latest Supreme Court nominee. It’s not that I don’t care; it’s just that I see the creep of inevitability in the whole process. The purpose of confirmation hearings is not to judge the capabilities or intelligence of the nominee, but to air out the tired clichés politicians know their constituencies ache for. It’s all such a damn circus.

And as I heard a conservative Senator with a put on Southern accent ramble about how she may not believe in the impartial rule of law, I did consider his words. His basic theory was that if you take into account your own personal experiences in large decisions, you are not being impartial and, for a judge, that means you are failing the law. To me, it seems like the absolute pinnacle of irrationality to even consider that anyone, from a scientist to a preacher to a judge, would ever truly achieve impartial overwatch of their own existence, let alone that of other people. That senator was being very stupid and irrational, and I found his authority a little worrisome.

That a senator would be incapable of understanding fairly simple truths related to the human condition was hardly my epiphany, though. It was this:

If we can only fail at impartiality, then justice is a flawed concept and totally nonexistent.

This bothers me. I have an ache in the deepest reaches of my psyche for justice. The unfairness of this world hurts me physically. It makes me sick to see failures inside the legal systems to fairly dole out justice, without regard to station, race, religion, etc. But nothing can be done.

It is a fundamental failure inside the human that destroys justice as any more that some nebulous Platonic ideal.

I guess the only solution is to kill all humans.

Luckily, I am a robot.

Anyone else?