failing in weird (ie, rare) edge cases that humans above a certain skill threshold could handle competently
ideal judge is the opposite of the ideal bureaucrat, a person stripped of all such power, there to implement a rigid system
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Not saying I don't like Judges, and having a human arbiter is crucial to bring humanity to an otherwise impartial, but sometimes cruel thing
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After all, Justice is blind, but she enforces laws written by politicians, lobbyists, and bureaucrats. Judges are last line of defence.
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BUT: Sometimes they are asshats :)
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spoke in terms of the ideal (model) advisedly, of course you get judgements only as good as the judge
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like the stereotypical argument that the constraints and diffusion of responsibility in democracy (which I don't agree...
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...with for other reasons, cite as illustrative) guard against the iniquities of tyrants but also preclude truly great rulers
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the unfettered judge and the interchangeable bureaucrat merely serve as a good rhetorical contrast
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