Something I was thinking about as I was on a long drive home the other day. Have you ever heard the question “which do you consider more important, justice or mercy?” most people consider the answer “mercy” to reflect a more compassionate human being but it’s curious to me because you really can’t have mercy without justice. You can have justice without mercy, but without the foundation of justice, a set of absolute truths, you don’t have the existence of mercy. Mercy requires something to be applied to and without relentless immovable justice the precious essence of mercy ceases to exist.