If this worked it would be a prejudice detector. I find that I'm not entirely prejudice-free, choosing the death of adults over children and animals over humans. But I don't think I'd be comfortable with a car auto-pilot choosing between humans, or failing to choose life for humans over animals.
Software and legal codes are going to collide in interesting ways here.
Well, prejudice is not the same as pre judge. The former has a very negative, often racist or discriminatory connotation (I mean discriminatory in a dehumanizing fashion) Prejudice is often defined with an element of non-rational decision making.
Pre judging on the other hand can be very ration. This can certainly be the case in well-considered moral principles. is a very different thing.
Sounds to me like you've defined "prejudice" as "pre-judging that I think is bad" and "pre-judge" as "pre-judging that I think is reasonable". Also it sounds like you've defined "ration(al)" as "things which I agree with"?
I really don't know where you get this impression of what I wrote. What did I write that makes you think I define "rational" as "things I agree with?" You seem to be reading too much into what I wrote to arrive at the worst possible interpretation. You are bordering on personal attacks as I take it as insulting for you to imply that I harbor that type of facile mindset. I would really like to know what gave you that impression from what was a fairly straightforward comment.
In any case, to clarify with > 1,000 year old evidence in support of the semantic distinction :
I am defining prejudice as distinctly different from pre-judging. Both the current definition and more recent (600+ years) of etymology support "prejudice" as a word connoting a frequently negative sentiment (spite, contempt) judgment that is typically not grounded in an evidence-based decision making process. [0] Current phonemic similarities between "pre-judging" are not indicative of closely matched meaning.
There is some closer etymological similarity between the verb form of prejudice and prejudge, the verb form "to prejudice" has a different meaning than the noun, much more of a legal sense to it that is still used today. "Don't prejudice the jury" for example. Its noun form differs significant in its mostly non-legal meaning.
Going back further to Latin roots [0 also] shows it to still have a negative connotation of "harm".
Pre-judging on the other hand does not have to take a negative form and mostly (for me at least) doesn't. It and can be done on the basis of limited evidence or past experience/expertise, with the healthy practice of revising those judgements as additional evidence becomes available.
To verge into being pedantic, prejudice might be considered a pernicious form of prejudgment, but in my own mind I tend to place them in different semantic categories all together.
Software and legal codes are going to collide in interesting ways here.