Gadzooks, it is not that logic and reason are bad the main thing is many do not care to use it. Logic, it seems, is avoided because it causes people to have to face and accept things they are not comfortable accepting.
When a person comes out of prison for instance, logic would say the best thing for them is to be in a stable safe environment. But no one in areas of low crime and stable lifestyle wants excons living in their neighborhood because they fear for their safety and that their families. The classic NIMBY. They say put them elsewhere, but there is really no elsewhere to put them. Especially when it comes to those branded as sex offenders. There is little logic shoving them under bridges because once they are off parole even if they have an ankle bracelet they can leave the area, and since they do not know where they can actually live they will be in the wind and unsupervised. How or who will do it if he truly decides to be nomadic? Many people will feel better but logically they are making their situation or the situation of others less secure.
Women who are raped don’t report it. They feel bad enough of the attack and don’t want to be grilled on the horrible details by law enforcement and then get peppered on the witness stand to they suck it up and say nothing, or they remain mum because they feel the attacker will come back for retribution. Logically each day he remains free they are no safer and neither are many other women. So long as he is free if they don’t move and neither does he, he can always comeback. It is logically like a having a vicious dog but there is a hole in the fence around its yard. So long as the hole is not mended the dog can get out and attack whomever, only until the fence is repaired can the dog be prevented from attacking. Logically it is the same way with a rapist, the only way to assure the public safety, especially females is to neutralize the rapist. But because the emotion and the feeling of losing one’s dignity, etc many attackers are allowed to roam free.
Logic and reason are often not apllied because people let emotion kill it off or block it from working.