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Originally Posted by Phage
But surely being wrong is not a completely new phenomenon. I suppose that I could have used "erroneous", but I wanted to avoid "wrong" due to the chance of being mistaken for a moral stance.
I find it surprising that you support an alteration of judgement that not only the justice system but all the philosophers who try to be objective view to hinder making correct decisions. If you are going to depart from rational thinking in favor of purely emotional arguments then kindly state it plainly near the start of your post so that it can be disregarded with ease.
I don't think it is amusing to knowingly hold flawed thought processes and then try to inflict your conclusions on other people. Of course, this appears to be instead an astonishingly poorly disguised Appeal to Mockery.
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And how do you come about the notion of emotion being flawed? It may obscure purely logical thought processes, but as far as law is concerned, that only goes so far as in determining guilt, and avoiding personal biases. Compassion does not require bias, and in fact, should be applied without it.
Sweetpea is simply asking how you would feel if it were someone with whom you were connected. It's not a flaw to consider this person in the same way; it is a flaw not to. To separate yourself completely from the situation simply because you have the situational fortitude to do so is no more right than is to base legal judgements on one's own emotional attachment, or lack thereof, to the accused.