The desire for justice is one of the deepest of all human emotions. In fact, it runs so deep, it’s the number one reason people can’t forgive.
A man named Ron, recently laid-off, discovered this through personal experience. A few hours after getting the news of his termination, Ron went into his office, took a frozen fish and secured it to a roller skate with several rubber bands.
"The whole situation just stinks," Ron’s boss had told him earlier in the day. "The CEO is making us cut staff so his bottom line will look better for the board meeting on Monday. I’m sorry, but you need to be cleared out by end of the day."
Alone in his office for the last time, Ron put another rubber band around the fish and skate. For good measure, he put a pen with the company’s logo in the fish’s mouth.
"Yep, it stinks all right" Ron chuckled bleakly to himself. After filling a box with his personal items to take home, he unscrewed the air vent cover on the ceiling. Taking one last look at the place where he’d invested the last 15 years of his life, he sent the fish and roller skate into the building’s ventilation system, and then quietly replaced the air vent cover.
Sometimes the pain of personal injustice runs even deeper. Listen to this from a recent newspaper story:
For the second time, prosecutors failed to get a first-degree murder conviction in the deaths of a teenage boy when a jury on Friday found the defendant guilty of one count of accessory to murder. ... Coupled with an earlier jury decision that the defendant’s accomplice was also just an accessory in the slaying, the resulting verdict is a paradox: No one has been convicted of pulling the trigger of the shotgun that fatally wounded a young man on Valenti
