Friday, February 27, 2015
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Prejudice most definitely gets in the way of the truth because having a preconception of someone before you even know them is very biased. If you judge someone based on what they look like or there past then your only hiding the truth of who that person really is because your judgements are most likely false. In the "Twelve Angry Men" the jurors judged the boy on his past mistakes and criminal activities by thinking had committed this crime when the overall evidence of the trial was very faulty. You can't judge people on there past mistakes because then you leave them no space to redeem themselves from there misfortunes.
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While the views of most of the Jurors was biased at first and wanted to give a guilty verdict, it didn't take very long for Juror 8 to plant a seed of reasonable doubt in their heads. Once some of them believed there was some reasonable doubt, most of their biased opinions came forward. The Jurors sometimes called each other out on their biases, but sometimes their biases contributed to the case by offering another angle to view from. Although biases can sometimes seem bad, they can offer a whole new point of view that could help bring the case to a close.
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