Love

My response when I encounter someone doing self-centered, destructive and/or illegal behavior is to love them anyway, truly wanting and being willing to support their emotional and spiritual development. I love them even if what they are doing is hurting me, which is, to me, the nature of unconditional love. My response often includes seeing that they are stopped and in some cases fined, jailed or prosecuted. In the words of Williamson "Not a silly love. Not a childish love. But a powerful love, an awesome love so aligned with God that it will change all things." In general people do not hurt other people unless they have been hurt in the past so hurting them more is not likely to help. Hurting them more will not "increase the integrity of the universe".