The mind is a court

I thought of the mind as a court.

I'm going to brainstorm about it:

• People don't judge themselves enough.
• They'll judge some of their ideas but not others.
• They'll judge some of their ideas by their strictest standards, but won't judge some other ideas by those same standards.
• And they won't have any good reasoning (or any reasoning at all) for why some ideas should be judged and others not.
• A person's mind should be thought of as a court.
• There's a judge. A jury. Lawyers. Witnesses. Bystanders.
• They are all you -- different parts of you.
• These parts of your are approximately autonomous.[1]
• People routinely act in ways where some part of them refuses to go to court.
• And the other people (the other parts of the person) refuse to call them out on it.
• Those parts of you that are refusing to go to court are doing things like rioting and destroying property. (This is a metaphor for mental suffering.)

[1] http://fallibleideas.com/ideas