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The Circuit Judge is very distraught about his situation after dying and feels as if he is less of a person then one of the people he convicted while alive.  He says how he only made his judgments in court based on what the lawyers said and not on what the real evidence set forth or what he actually felt about the situations.  By not having his own identity, the Circuit Judge sees himself as an undeserving and lesser person as a whole.  His situation shows how important human intuition and self identity is in life.  If someone does not follow what they believe in, then what are they in life?  Are they living out a different person’s life?  The Judge seems to be living out the ideas of the  American Justice System, causing him to become nothing more then a puppet.  Without an identity, people are simply nothing; even though they are entities within the world, they actually do not exist as a human.  Humans are special because they possess this ability to have free will over what they think and do.  If one does not utilize this ability to think for themselves then what are they actually?