What's more important compassion or justice (details inside ) ?

Justice. Compassion only means that they’ll do it again.

Compassion. It’s what makes us decent in the first place. Justice is the backup plan for addressing failures of compassion.

@thorninmud Hit it spot on.

Tough one. The problem for me is that neither word is well defined.

What is justice? For whom?

What is compassion? I know what it means broadly, but compassion to dying and diseased 90 year old is different than compassion to a teenager.

This is one of those where situation / definition really is important.

Therefore, too broad to answer.

(And yes, I have been tested myself, and I had pretty much the same feeling then that I do today)

If one is in the Faith, compassion, if not then justice is more important.

Compassion in the individual, justice in the system.

The question needs to be more narrowly defined. It’s not clear if this is strictly either/or.

Compassion. And being in “the Faith” has nothing to do with it, as Jesus said.