truth, justice and sovereignty

So this is following on from last post about sovereignty,
from which I left you spinning around and around on
the compasses of morals, attempting to convince you that
it was essential to this issue of sovereignty.

Of course as I have mentioned this subject is vast.  If
I had started out in my youth entirely focused on just
this, I think maybe I would have something vital to
contribute, but as it is, I wasn't.

Nevertheless, I do think it is essential to include
both truth or Truth, and justice or Justice, into this
discussion because,  without  these two
essential ingredients, the notion of sovereignty would
mean substantially less.  Also, its connection to our
personal lives would not be so much.

I just want to try to make this notion clear, that
although we often think of both truth and justice
as external notions, they are in fact, both virtues
and both therefore integrally connected to the
effective functioning of a meaningful moral compass.

What that means is that like any other virtue it
is necessary to develop and nurture it.  That is
we have to develop and nurture our ability both
to understand truth as well as to understand
our relationship with it and how to effectively deal with
it.  In many ways you might call this a critical role
in any kind of real relationship we can  maintain
to the idea of science.

Imagining the moral compass visually, you might
think of it as some kind of gyroscope perhaps.
Directly related to it is both truth and justice as
sort of pivotal components of the structure.

Beyond that, justice as a virtue is a clear link to
our own self discovery and development. 

Imagining a moral compass as some kind of visual
is an interesting and entertaining idea, but it seems
clear it is of fundamental importance in guiding
us in the actions we apply to our real life situations.