(this, incidentally, is what makes judges special, and why things like mandatory sentencing and such operate at cross-purposes: we...
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...*specifically* empower them to render judgement and have entire cultures built around the fact of the gravity of their decisions)
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the ideal of bureaucracy is to excise individual discretion completely, to have a pure system immune to bribery (because why would you...
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...bribe them if they can't do anything for you), one where people get exactly what they should expect our based on what they put in
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it's an ideal of course, bureaucracies fail spectacularly on special cases, which causes them to add more procedure as they encounter them
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so they can appear uncaring (because they are) and bloat to monstrous sizes absent constant aggressive refactoring
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I would not call USG a healthy state (though it's far from african dictatorship levels let's be real), and making it into one would be a...
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...massive undertaking. but if one were to attempt, approach I'd take is: scope down globally but up locally, simplify, and be *reliable*
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"I feel uneasy about banning green card holders from entering the country so here is a long thread about what could be worse"
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no, "case-by-case basis" is literally what some of them are saying now
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though you are right that I think applying this to green hard holders is bad policy
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