Re:The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longi...
by jerf on Thursday January 13, 2022 @01:15PM
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And to put it another way, the job of a juror is to convict or exonerate the person on trial, not to convict or exonerate their own abusers by proxy.
Vulcans might not have a problem with this, but humans so obviously do that pretending otherwise is impractical.
Put another way: there wouldn't be a point in deliberation if we didn't have biases. Our justice system trusts and (weakly) attempts to enforce the gap between those biases and prejudices that would actually interfere with the court's duty.