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And unfortunately, judges are the only legal entity empowered to use their intuition for legal decision making. Sentencing is a good example; judges can kinda j

And unfortunately, judges are the only legal entity empowered to use their intuition for legal decision making. Sentencing is a good example; judges can kinda just decide sentences based on feel. Just throw some number out there.

nonrandomstring 3y ago
That's not unfortunate, it's the system working as intended. Not being funny but that's why we call them judges. You can't have everything decided in advance by an algorithm baked into the system, part of the system is devolved deciding, sometimes called "equity".