What happened to the posters supporting the hot car baby killer?

[Igel]

26. Oh, goodie.

Another "either you rush to judgment based on partial information spun in an inflammatory way or you knowingly side with a child-killer" poster.

The ultimate "if you're not with me, you're against all that's good and sane in life." I don't play well with that kind of manipulation and linguistic bullying. I recognize it for what it is. I also look at the psychology behind this kind of game and find it embarrassingly puerile.

Now, sometimes rushing to judgment results in a verdict that agrees with what jurors, looking at all the facts in context, decide. That's a bit of a head rush because, well, it means "we" are right. In some cases it's a downer, because obviously the jury failed to consider things properly and don't agree with us. In most cases it doesn't matter, we know we're right and stop following the media circus, barely noticing that we're obviously wrong.

All that remains is the sense of outrage that we weren't right in some instances--outrage that is fairly quickly forgotten--and the intensely memorable intense dopamine rush of being proven to be right. So we remember all the times we're awesome, downplay the times we suck, and ignore the vast number of times when ... What was that? Squirrel! In short, vigilantism is sometimes right and that's what we remember, so we get an inflated sense of our incredible awesomeness and wonderfulness.

I don't rush to judgment. And I'm usually too busy trying to understand what's going on to worry about immediate outrage, which has little to do with justice or thinking in general. Justice delayed it justice denied (a nice Anglophone saying), but justice rushed is justice buried (a nice Pakistani saying).