re: #3 MandyManners

Since when is empathy equal to legal acumen?

Emphasizing empathy, while sounding nice, is perilous when it comes to the law. IMO it essentially replaces the Rule of Law with the Rule of Man. And the Rule of Man can be capricious and arbitrary and unpredictable. Unpredictability undermines society as it erodes confidence in the fairness of the Law itself. IMHO.