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Justice is supposed to be blind and law is supposed to be above emotion. They are made to give the right decision. However they often fail in giving the objective decision due to empathy. “A Time to Kill” by John Grisham is one of an example that shows an empathy can manipulate someone. It is about Jake Tyler Brigance, a white lawyer who has empathy with colored-man. He tries to help Carl Lee Hailey, who killed two men that had raped his daughter. Jake fights for a justice, but empathy is not enough to have “a real justice”. In this case, Jake’s empathy educates a lot of people not to be racist. On the other hand, it manipulates other people to feel guilty, because they were racists. Then it would empower them to forget the law. His empathy bend him to break the rule, he positions his emotion above the law. By watching Jake closely, we can know that empathy is not always right. People who have over empathy can lose their objectivity, because it encourages them to give priority to their emotion. In the theory, people should control their emotion, and should not let their emotion control their life. If people’s emotion leads their life, it will impact negatively on them. Therefore, we should have a right emotion and right empathy in the right time.