Apropos to earlier question regarding revenge as a justification of killing..? ?

Question

The civility, laws, regulations and other accepted mode of living are merely masks that we put on. Basically, deep down we are ruled by primal desires.

- This is what Freudian psychology of Id, Ego and Super ego suggests. It makes sense.

Then it should make sense that emotions, the echoes of our uncivilized sense, have no place in judiciary. That justice is to be served without considering the emotions. That is what the famous female writer Agatha Christie said through her character Ms. Marple. An old lady with sharper mind than scotland yard, she always promoted the "victorian sense of justice". Meaning, one can always justify a crime to 12 common people but that should not fool or falter the mind of one who passes judgment. Because, getting away with a crime is a crime committed against innocent people.

Do you think justice should be free of emotions?

Answer 1

Well, no, whether it makes sense or not, it doesn't seem to me to be accurate. There's no reason to think that our sociality is false, and only our other stuff "real."

Uh, WHY HAVE a judiciary, unless we are creatures of emotion? It's because we have such things as an emotional weight to our sense of right and wrong, and a passion for fairness that we care what others do.

I think the way of looking at things is not quite right.

DISINTERESTEDNESS, not lack of all human feeling, is what's needed in the justice system. Some sanity; an ability to put prejudice aside; a desire to right wrongs -- these are the felings that inform and motivate justice.

Uh, Ms. Marple is a fictional character. Thus doesn't constitute evidence for anything.