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Prejudice definately gets in the way of the truth because if you judge someone based on who they are or what they look like then you can't see the truth. If you have a false idea of who someone is it can obscure your perception. In twelve angry men the jurors judge the boy based on his history of knife fighting and they base his character on it. If you base your prejudices on someone past then nobody could ever outlive past mistakes that they regret. People aren't perfect and when we mess up part of moving on is deciding to not make those mistakes again. The jurors couldn't move past the fact that the kid had a criminal background and that was potentially detrimental to his future seeing as he could've gone to jail for somthing he didn't do.