This is one of the reasons I value logic over emotion.
You realize that removing all emotion is in and of itself inhuman as well.
Human beings have emotions. To seperate them out and attempt to remove them is in and of itself attempting to be something other than human. We are not computers, we are not robots, emotions do factor in.
One can definitely take a step back, view a situation logically, and still express emotion. Wake pointed out how his class tried to look at 9/11 sans emotion...he also pointed out utter disgust and rage was still had after that for the perpetrators.
That's NOT what you're doing. You're not attempting to remove emotion from your view of what should be done, you're trying to remove emotion completely. The most you give is a cold, heartless, hollow "sympathy" for the victim. While you refuse to allow emotion to enter in, you also act illogical by ignoring that humans by their very nature have a certain amount of emapthy in them and view situations based on that.
Logically, yes. A girl that's 11 getting raped by 18 men is not as bad as say....an entire race of people being exterminated, or an entire country living in abject poverty, or a village where the women are raped daily. However, also, when you logically look at the context in which people are talking you realize they're speaking in a relatively micro level of crimes against individuals within a developed country rather than a macro version of the world at large. When viewing it that way, a gang rape at that age could be even worse than a grisley murder due to the emotional problems it could subject the woman to for the rest of her life. Its arguably worse than the majority of rape cases that happen to older individuals because the affects of it would be potentially longer lasting and the mind is less developed and more susceptiable to issues.
If someone in America got fired, had their house burned down, then called and told their daughter was just raped brutally for 2 weeks straight and then killed, their son committed suicide, their wife was divorsing him, and he has aids....you could still, using your twisted version of logic, go "eh, my sympathizes for him...but that's not THAT big of a deal" because hey, there's worse stuf theoritically going on somewhere in the world.
There's a difference between looking at a situation logically, and looking at it heartlessly. You sit here going on about how logical you THINK you are, while you then take peoples emotional reactions as if they are honest suggestions and not emotional responses to a horrible act in relation to the norm for their existance.
You say you strive to be logical, I say you're striving to be something other than a human.