Empathy for the Devil

We have run into a catch22 road block of sorts. While one can argue that justice should be blind to emotion when the court is called upon to decide the validity of law, we have a Congress writing bad laws.



In our system of checks and balances we separate the writing of laws from the judgment and that leads to laws written with no empathy and people complaining to the courts who are supposed to respond without empathy.



How do you resolve what even the courts admit are bad laws even if they are "constitutional"? Lawmakers don't regulate themselves. They respond to "situations" with emotion and that results in knee jerk laws based on "empathy/emotion" then people expect the courts to avoid empathy?



No...the courts are there to moderate the justice process and to do so without empathy puts them in the position of remaining silent in the face of a gross injustice if they see it.
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