高度進化社會(highly evolved society)的人們充分了解這個道理。您是否也想了解？
聽神談【「懲罰」與「功能性發揮的調適」過程】
當你們尋求「導正錯誤」時，會認爲懲罰是過程中必要的一部分。
因為你們把所謂「錯誤」的行爲視爲「道德上的過失」，而非「功能上的行不通」。
反過來說，若是你們不尋求懲罰，而是設法使行不通的事變成行得通，你們只是予以修正。只是改變方向路徑。只是找到一個新的方式。你們改變了想法、言語和行爲。你們做了一項「調適」（adjustment）。
這即是「一項公正之舉」（a justment）。
因此，我們見到所謂「公平公正」其實就是「一項調適」。這是生命的體系在調適自己，以朝向其運作的可行之道。
高度進化的社會充分了解這個道理。做行爲的調適，雖然體驗到的各種結果也是那過程的一部分（它是經由體驗到結果行不通，使得行爲的調適變成心裡想要的改變），但懲罰卻不是。
摘自《與神對話之新啟示》第22章
When you seek to "right a wrong," you imagine that punishment is required as part of the process. That is because you see the "wrong" that was done as a moral failure rather than a functional nonviability.
When, on the other hand, you seek not to punish, but simply to make something work that does not work, you merely put in a correction. You change course. You find a new way. You alter your thoughts, words, or deeds. You make an adjustment.
This is "a justment."
So we see that "justice" is really "a justment." It is the system called life adapting itself in order to go on in a way that works.
In highly evolved societies, all of this is understood perfectly. The behavior adjustment is put in, and while consequences are part of that process (it is through the consequences that are experienced that behavior adaptation becomes desirable), punishment is not.
