"FishFood" <d...@home.com> wrote in message

> Charles E. Hardwidge wrote:
>> I do get the strong impression at times that law as implemented is merely
>> a veneer of confidence applied to a messy and broken reality. There's an
>> influential view that we're all psychotic in a psychotic world. I think
>> this is why qualitative issues, essence, or intuitive understanding of
>> the world is a helpful companion to logic. Good comedy, like good art,
>> help us sidestep the illusory certainty of logic and help us become more
>> in touch with reality and ourselves.

> In one sense i can see how the system, wanting to appear fair and even
> handed, might want the same judgment for all similar cases. This might
> though, mean equally unfair for all similar cases, simple because that
> was the precedence.

> We might as well do away with judges and have computers as judges ;).
> Imagine that world, where lawyers were employed to feed case notes in, as
> computers did all the research to arrive at a standardized judgment.
> It would follow naturally as a consequence of our rationalised system.

> Now for the fun bit.

> Imagine deviations in the punishment based upon supply and demand, so
> that the program was 'tunned' according to the demands of the penal
> system. Call this the bias variable. A work generation program, with
> its parallel headline generation program, where computers were 'used'
> to manage this element of supply and demand. No one would be in any
> position to question the computer, or it programmer, unless it supplied
> reasons which could be further investigated. In this way, the computer
> would produce answers to manage appearance. judicial magic. Not that
> i'm suggesting that course for the future, but forewarned is forearmed, as
> we use to say.