The conventional wisdom suggests that those who make hard and fast decisions for a living are prosecution-minded individuals since a verdict is not much more than another decision, and since sympathy and empathy play no part in the decision-making process.
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DAVID REID I have no sympathy
for those with apathy.
They are not worthy
of my empathy.
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