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With the development of an elaborate legalistic criminal justice system, being agenda driven, the people will put more effort and cunning into their criminal behavior. See Tao Te Ching chapters 18, 19, and 38.If there was a Taoist society, how do you think it's criminal justice system would work? Is it possible to be non-dual and practice undiscriminating virtue AND have laws, penalties and a criminal justice system with an entirely Taoist population?
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With the development of an elaborate legalistic criminal justice system, being agenda driven, the people will put more effort and cunning into their criminal behavior. See Tao Te Ching chapters 18, 19, and 38.
So... in a Taoist society there would be no such system? Ordinary people would exist happily being taken advantage of by the cunning criminals with no repercussions. The more highly evovled people would be OK with this, but those less evolved people would probably perceive suffering and injustice.
Tao is understanding not evolving, if you understand can you suffer injustice, if you understand can you do injustice.
You ask about a perfect Taoist society and then give it imperfections. The great thing about Tao is that it is for the individual not the society.
No, it would be a lackluster system rather than an elaborate system.With the development of an elaborate legalistic criminal justice system, being agenda driven, the people will put more effort and cunning into their criminal behavior. See Tao Te Ching chapters 18, 19, and 38.
So... in a Taoist society there would be no such system? Ordinary people would exist happily being taken advantage of by the cunning criminals with no repercussions. The more highly evovled people would be OK with this, but those less evolved people would probably perceive suffering and injustice.
Perhaps the closest thing to a Taoist society has been China, and the Chinese legal system has never in history been much more than a joke because of corruption, and because it never evolved legal principles like due process and no one is above the law.
I'll put it another way. A Taoist society would have a secular government with secular justice system for the people who aren't able to achieve the mental state of someone who goes with the Tao?
If there was a Taoist society, how do you think it's criminal justice system would work? Is it possible to be non-dual and practice undiscriminating virtue AND have laws, penalties and a criminal justice system with an entirely Taoist population?
Many thanks :namaste