Lindsay Clancy and sympathy for the devil

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...which is a repeated, and sad, occurrence in our society now. Kurt Schlicter opines:

townhall.com - All this feelings nonsense should make you feel sick

This has been going on for a while. Thirty years ago, some lunatic actually allowed me on a DUI case as a juror. Let’s just say with my résumé, you would never want me on any jury ever. That’s because I’m going to ask questions and think about things. Remember, lawyers want jurors who aren’t going to do either of those things. That goes for both sides. In any case, the guy blew out the breathalyzer and was a staggering mess when the cop hooked him up. It should’ve been case closed. But no, he was an immigrant, and the Santa Monica housewife on the jury told us that we couldn’t expect immigrants to understand that driving around like Foster Brooks motoring back from New Year’s at the Kennedy compound was wrong. The jury hung. Oh, and the best part came later, because I knew that there was some evidence out there that wasn’t being admitted. I called the prosecutor after the case ended, and he told me the dude was arrested coming home from the party where he was celebrating getting back his driver’s license after his previous DUI conviction. But in the past, that kind of moron was always kind of the exception. It was also the exception in society. We used to look down on people who weren’t rational. But now we look on them as sensitive, as caring and compassionate. Our Oprahized society celebrates those who prioritize the feelz. How it’s caring and compassionate to let a woman who throttled a trio of babies escape punishment is beyond me. Like you, my mind can’t wrap around people who are entirely bereft of reason in favor of emotion.

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But sadly, those who find reason too inconvenient and prefer the cheat code that is governing yourself by emotion have no conception of this. They assume the world that reason created is the world’s default mode, and that they have the luxury of embracing a feelzocentric paradigm. A certain percentage of the population has always done that, but it’s always been low. Now it’s in danger of becoming the majority. And when it becomes the majority, what happens to civilization? Well, I’ve spent a lot of time overseas, so I have got some pretty bad feelz about how that will work out if we let it happen here. And the inability of a dozen Americans to look at the obvious facts and return a guilty verdict on this hideous woman does not bode well for the future.

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