Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

Boy, is it hard to detach and not take sides.  If neither side is mine, I at least know to stay out of it.  Because this is not a police procedural mystery, this is life.  And in life, speech is murky, and intonation and expression are game changers.  I do not see myself as Solomon, and anyway, I do not think Solomon made a wise choice.  Lots of people want to be judge and jury:  they're in the newspapers every single day.  But I do not.  The several times I've served on a jury I felt uncomfortable.  In one case, the prosecutor did such a lousy job that a perpetrator got off.  Another time, the accused had a terrible defense team.  He was guilty, but his life was going to be ruined because he was a target:  a Hispanic in a beat up truck.  He harmed no one.  So I don't have confidence in the system.  When I worked in safehouses, lawyers used to subpoena us to prove the battered women was an unfit mother and didn't deserve custody of the kids because she'd been in a safehouse.  Never mind the husband had broken her arm and scared the children.  Truth is murky and hard to discern.  I'm still working on my own truths, and have no qualifications to judge others'.