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Long-Term Peace Restorations

Retribution and restoration share a concern for justice as balance of responsibility with authority. But retribution is coercive while restoration democratizes therapeutic cooperation, invites grace and love and mercy for oneself as for others. Retributive justice pretends a violation of our multicultural Golden Rule leaves no option but to set our WinWin potential aside and move toward WinLose and LoseLose retaliation. This sin of missed opportunities to restore health between individuals, between specialized economic and political interests, between invested cultures, between Earth's collaterally operating species between internal Left and Right hemispheres as between Earth's dualistic West and nondual Eastern metaphysical hemispheres degenerates into further cooperative-affective dissonance rather than internal peace, and further punishing competitions in reaction to past fears and angers and terrors, inquisitions and impositions of power from Above, when regenerative restoration calls for growing balancing powers from within whom we indigenously could be reweaving regenerative justice and peace. Restoration is an invited exchange of therapeutic powers where retribution ignores further abuse and neglect and disempowerment of both predators and prey. If our Earth-manifest destiny is to predatively colonize until all land and water, airwaves and energy for light and heat and cold is privately governed and hoarded by an overpopulated species of Might Makes Right always Trumps Golden Global Rules, then we are a culture grown to expect retributive judgments where restorative ego and ecotherapies are more readily and cooperatively Self as originally part of Matriarchal Other manifesting-mentoring cooperative WinWin destinies, while that other predative colonizing pirating privatizing secularizing degenerative destiny is just more oppressively fake bad judgment news. We could rejoin Earth's natural sacred grace, restorative reforesting therapies composed of Golden Global Peace and Justice, gift economies of gratitude. Retribution is a competitive choice to pursue degenerating ecopolitical relationships where WinWin restorative therapies wait in the bicameral wings of consciousness to promise regenerative peace with justice, within internal landscapes as externalized balancing climates, economies of ecological power balance through active restorative redistributive mutual gifting intent of sacred gratitude for Earth's nurturing nutritional investment in natural-spiritual humane life, cooperatively maturing ecopolities.

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