r/law • u/bendubberley_ • 15h ago

Legal News The judge in the Lindsay Clancy case is admonishing jurors who are refusing to follow his instructions

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u/friend_jp 11h ago

That’s because it’s their whole fucking identity. Feeling.

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u/GiraffeSpicyFries 7h ago

Just got to have "faith".

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u/alotropico 4h ago

I would argue feeling is everybody's fucking identity. That keeps being proven by facts and evidence, to my knowledge.

The problem seems to take place when people get stuck on a single emotion, especially if it is an intense one, as rage and fear tend to be, and then they cannot follow any thought drifting beyond that substrate, even slightly.

Thought that goes somewhere, on the other hand, seems to flourish on emotions that grow and decay, that are prone to take us where other emotions will emerge. And although everything we do consistently seems to imply some kind of method, holding some discipline, especially when it's imposed by ourselves, and the boredom it entails seem favorable to the drift of emotions and the emergence of subtle nuances that would get flattened in the heat of the raw survival bunch. And so the children learn how to play; imagination finds a safe place and some room to explore what may become of those unused, unnamed emotions. And we can and will always justify it later.