Aristotle wrote that laws are for the general case and judges for the specific. In other words, they are guidelines but you want a human to interpret them and a

Aristotle wrote that laws are for the general case and judges for the specific. In other words, they are guidelines but you want a human to interpret them and apply them to a concrete situation. Hence "hard cases make bad law." And just the other day someone here was asking about the value of reading the Classics. :-)