A lack of emotion makes you guilty?
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February 8th, 2014
I was reading about Amanda Knox and most people in the comments of the article are in favor of having her lynched.
Why? Because of the speck of DNA on the kitchen knife that wasn’t even consistent with the stab wounds on Meredith Kercher and the fact that she hasn’t been seen “actually” crying on public television.
Apparently the lack of emotion makes her “guilty, guilty, guilty” and a “filthy liar”.
It made me think of myself…I never have been one for big shows of emotion. It’s not a conscious effort to suppress emotion, I just don’t.
I was also thinking of our own court system. The people leaving these comments are the same people on juries. They’re willing to call a woman a murderer even though there’s no substantial evidence…they’re just going on their own opinion and “feeling”.
I think it was Mark Twain that said people do a lot of feeling and mistake it for thinking.
So, how does not having an emotional fit make someone guilty?
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That’s exactly how Meursault earned his years in the slammer.
Lack of emotion just makes one guilty in the court of public opinion which unfortunately spills over into the jury box where it shouldn’t.
Your question immediately brought Casey Anthony to my mind.
There was a question posted here on Fluther about the Amanda Knox verdict, and I seem to recall our members were pretty evenly split.
I once heard a judge make the statement “we are all human beings and to think there is an argument in a courtroom that is completely 100% is foolish, a good judge knows the truth lies somewhere in the middle.”
We have what is called perspective, much like opinions we all have one and it is a combination of feelings and life experience. If we haven’t been shown how to express feelings they can rule our lives and come out in many ways at unpredictable times. From the strong ones to something as basic as happiness,sadness or anger.
In extreme situations it is a rare person who has( learned) to completely be void of emotion. Usually it is a learned behavior born out of self preservation. Does it make you guilty, I don’t believe that it does.
However, I do agree with other here, who state that it is our world now were people are found guilty in the media and public opinion more and more. Then again what are we doing here, besides giving our perspective.
I never cried for my mother, who died at 95, when I was 67. She was my best friend, I had known her since my birth and I lived with her for the last years of her life. Even if I cannot cry, I think of her, and miss her, every day. If that makes me a cold stick, too bad.
I believe grieving is a different emotional journey for each individual, so much more complex.
Old-fashioned ideas about women and how they must ooze emotion because uterus are at fault here. They’d say the same of the man but it wouldn’t really be as unusual.
@bea2345 “Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears” Wordsworth.
Everyone is different, some sociopaths show little or no outward emotions but if a person exhibits this same behavior it does not prove that they are a sociopath. or evil or guilty.
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