Fewer and fewer rules have discretion. Automated cameras, LLMs, plea deals, minimum mandatory sentences, zero tolerance in schools. Relying on people to do the

Fewer and fewer rules have discretion. Automated cameras, LLMs, plea deals, minimum mandatory sentences, zero tolerance in schools. Relying on people to do the right thing fails. American government got two good centuries out of "assuming good intent" before the lack of written rules was weaponized. In a perfect world we wouldn't need an explicit code of conduct for supreme court justices, but we are not in a perfect world.