A recent post suggested that its a "good thing" to have a justice of the Supreme Court who exhibits "empathy". This argument is being advanced as a basis for supporting the Obama nomination of Sonia Sotomayor.

What is empathy? It is the exact opposite of justice.

Empathy: The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner

Justice: The quality of being just, impartial, or fair.

We do not need empathy from our judges, we need justice.

Which part of "Justice is blind" is not obvious?

The answer is obvious. For those who cannot achieve their ends by a righteous, moral and just means, any means will do.

This is a great example of the root cause of our political division in this nation. There are people who believe that their goals are so worthy that any means required to achieve them is acceptable.

Its like someone who robs a bank to buy food for their grandmother. They figure "Granny needs a meal more than the bank needs the money" but the problem is that other people might just end up starving when their savings was stolen.

They cannot accept that justice..let me repeat... JUSTICE is blind. It does not see granny, nor the person who lost their savings. It sees the thief, the law against theft, the evidence, and makes a judgment.

The path we are on...a path where politicians nominate people based on their race, their gender, their willingness to demonstrate a particular bias against some people and for others...this is not the path our founders anticipated.

I will repeat for those who cannot remember it.... (From the Declaration of Independence..an old worn out document to some)

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.