http://www.usccb.org/bible/jn/8:4747
Perfection is that which we aim for with an awareness that such a goal is realisable only in the efforts that we make to achieve that objective there being an understanding that our quest to perfect all we are becoming can never finish. What may be true for us may not be so for others whose perception of the ideal is remote from our own.
In the captioned biblical parable who is this woman? The answer may surprise you. She's you. And she's us. She, or he is the personification of the human person erring day by day through our life time's journey discovering all that we are becoming when putting right, that which we come to understand through bitter experience is self destructive.
Each of us is culpable. No exceptions. We are all made of flesh and blood; we all have the propensity to make mistakes. Jesus demonstrated that the Law is not wrong, rather that none is guiltless under the Law, including those men ready to stone to death the woman accused of adultery.
Plato reminds us that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, when next we believe that we can justify casting stones to assuage our anger that they are imperfect, therefore deserving all that the Law imposes on them.
This captioned Twilight Zone episode illustrates in black, and white that ones perception of perfection is never a matter of conforming to the dictates of those who believe that they are above judgement.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6y1zqb
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