Jonathan_Graehl comments on You Be the Jury: Survey on a Current Event - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AnlamK 11 December 2009 06:21:31AM 2 points [-]

Thanks for your summary.

The only place I differ from you is the cartwheel part. This behavior strikes me as genuinely insensitive and disrespectful but being disrespectful and insensitive doesn't make one a murderer.

I'd like to believe that the prosecution has a case but for the life of me, I can't see one.

One thing that struck me as weird is that Kercher's family was 'pleased' with the verdict - do they really think that Knox and Sollecito took part in the murder? Why do they think that way? I'd like to know. Surely, the Kercher family must be reasonable people - so why are they pleased with the verdict?

The horrifying prospect is: do they know something I don't? If so, I must search for it and learn it... :-(

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 11 December 2009 11:38:08PM 3 points [-]

Why look for rationality in the desires of a typical bereaved family? Surely if they had their way, anyone associated with the event at all would be punished, so great is their loss.