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Can anyone please make sense of the following inscription...?
On the courthouse in Superior, WI, there is an inscription that reads "Let justice be done though the whole world perish". I have a serious problem with that statement. Do you?
Clearly I understand the importance of a justice system to the point that the world would be a wasteland if there was no justice. But maybe I was focusing too much on the phrase "...be done though...", where the action of justice would mean the world perishes. In other words, if every citizen of the world committed the same crime, the whole world would perish. Maybe my question should have dealt with the semantics of that inscription.
4 Answers
- ?Lv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
Those other answers are wrong.
it means that we will do justice regardless of the consequences.
- susanperrLv 79 years ago
If your don't have laws and order and justice in this world, then the world may perish. Just think what this world would be like without laws, enforcement of the laws, punishment and justice. Everything would be wild and dangerous.
- RandyLv 79 years ago
Nope. I have no problem with it at all. In other words, without justice things will fall apart.
Seems like an appropriate inscription for a Courthouse.
