Straying thoughts

When two people contend, where both are right and their viewpoints are justified, status quo (to leave things as they are) seems the only answer. But that does not bring home a point conclusively. It does not 'nail' the issue. It is a compromise. Perhaps, there is maximum justice in a compromise. Win- some -lose- some- sort of thing. Live and let live, where both the contenders have to put up with a bit of injustice. Yet, pronouncement of justice as man understands and practices it, a judicial verdict, seeks to be conclusive. "Beyond any reasonable doubt" is the famous dictum. I wonder if that is possible. Whatever the values which define something as 'just', there will always be doubt. But that doubt is over ruled by dictates of an authority, the judge. At the end of a trial the judge hammers his desk to sign off. 'The case is closed' is what it signifies. That, too, is compromise. An 'authority', however supreme, rules a verdict in favour of one against the other for want of an all comprehensive omniscience. (I dare that term in human context!) Of course there is room for appeal. There are hierarchies of courts - Civil, high & supreme- where one may appeal. Yet, my understanding is that these courts too are not above the general limitation of human mental- vital muddle. Ancient Hindu thought seems to have considered this. It is believed that Hindus do not regard 'madness' in the sense that modern Psychology does. Modern psychology judges to condemn, albeit in terms most euphemistic, yet condemn it does. Hindus of old did not do that. A mad man was considered divinely inspired, as in the case of Ramakrishna Paramhansa. Only when the 'madman' was harmful, practical measures were taken to segregate the person. Recently I have experienced this very conundrum in my own home. I am right in the views I hold, and she is right in holding hers. Unfortunately, there appears to be no room for a compromise. It is not so much owing to my will not to be willing to pacify things as it is due to her refusal to make peace. We are humans. We should seek to make peace at every opportunity. If we fail to see the reasonableness of that, all human co-existence is a chimera. It is hogwash & nothing else! And despite millennia of 'civilization' we are still subject to animal law, which is survival of the fittest. In these thoughts of mine which strayed, there was quite some dwelling on something called "pardon". But since it will not be exercised in this case, let it be left unsaid.