Fig. 2: Personal decision-making for justice.

Personal decisions involve an intrinsic primal decision between adaptation that results in the enhancement of well-being, and maladaptation that results in the loss of well-being and increase in ill-being. To experience the need for primal personal decisions is to experience anxiety and the need to adapt. To deny anxiety leads to an implicit choice for maladaptation. However, whatever primal decision is made, mauri or the divine life force, works to enhance well-being. If the choice is made to face anxiety there is direct enhancement of well-being. If the choice is to deny anxiety, there is an ironical correction through emergent negative feedback within the anticipatory systems of life to increase anxiety. To deny anxiety means to deny aspects of knowledge about reality, for example climate change and coloniality. This degrades and ultimately collapses va or supportive personal relationships. The degradations are manifest as injustice through imposed false universals demanding conformity, which marginalises, excludes, and engages in necropolitics to decide who supposedly deserves well-being and who deserves ill-being and death. If instead there is the choice made to face anxiety and to work with knowledge, va is enhanced and is manifest as justice to inclusively support increase in well-being, including a sense of belonging at home for all. It also brings resilience, through the proactive expression of lauga or wayfinding and facilitation of talanoa or inclusive conversations to respond to all feedback that the mauri has brought.