Because criminal law is primarily about moral blameworthiness, it entails a stronger link than tort liability. Xena feels remorse despite his attacking her from behind. She responds by telling him that you love with your mind and your soul, not actually with your heart. Such a false distinction between thinking and feeling views these activities as being oppositional and exclusive instead of being complementary and inclusive. This dualism is related to a separative notion of self, which some scholars view as part of the problem with the rational actor approach, underlying neoclassical law and economics.
Emotions are neither separate from, nor opposite to, reason.
To suggest feeling has less importance than reasoning is as ludicrous as to say that either of these human capacities can be attributed exclusively to one gender. The idea of an emotionally integrated self resonates with the viewpoint that reasoning as to whether a decision is good or bad, that is, practical reasoning, is both feasible and desirable precisely because it takes into account emotions. Xena's comments about not feeling enough indicate that she envisions a world of people who are not skeptics in the ancient tradition of Pyrrhonism or its modern revival, the literary theory of deconstructionism. Instead of detachedly viewing contradictory arguments as being equally weighty, Xena seems to feel that one should make choices while taking emotions into account. This assumption might be descriptive of warlords' conquests, but most conflicts are motivated by distributional considerations.