Fairness, compassion, privacy and human rights Finding out the facts before making a decision not after, data analysis.
My premises may be wrong, I have vast tracts of ignorance, but my general reasoning is sound. If someone shows me I am wrong I change my mind. There is too much poor reasoning published, and too many decisions made based on emotion instead of facts. Here is a balanced set of emotion and reasoning on the random, the irrelevant and a few points of principle.