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Yes laws can’t be implemented in a straightforward and neutral way. That’s not a benefit of laws or something we need to preserve. Exactly the opposite.

The fact the process is sitting on a case for YEARS because they can't decide how to interpret the facts, or which laws apply, or what they mean, or even simply due to the procedure being enormously inefficient for everyone involved, in fact usually means that whether you are found guilty or not in the end... you lose.

And humans can always have the last say. Computers don’t take that away from anyone. Having computable law doesn't mean 100% of it is computed by dry algorithms.

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The goal of the justice system is not to be efficient or fast, it is to be just. It is a last resort for complicated cases that can't be easily settled between the parties. You don't want to have every single dispute going through the justice system. That sounds like a dystopian authoritarian future. You want the people in society to self organize and settle their matter privately as much as possible.

It is very much a benefit that it's interpretative and slow. We want it to reflect the culture and people's common sense. We want it to be as fail proof as possible (even if it take ages to come up with all the evidence and arguments). And fail proof here is not to interpret the law in the most pedantic of ways, but in the way that is the most just. The reason for lawyers and courts are exactly the edge cases that are difficult to agree upon.