[aerovistae]

Reminds me of my favorite internet essay of all time, no longer available except on wayback machine[1]

> ...the US criminal justice system is overwhelmingly preoccupied with procedure and process, often at the expense of justice. This myopia is the product of a technocratic bureaucracy.

> The contemporary incarnation of the peculiar mindset of Anglo-American jurisprudence leads to the question, “Were the rights of all parties, as enumerated by the law, protected?”, eclipsing the much larger issue: “Is this outcome compatible with justice?”

While these comments are in reference to the legal system, I think they are equally applicable to the mindset pervading the oversight of today's tech world.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20210308014253/https://likewise.a...

Note - the author is an intermittent HN user, abalashov.

[macintux]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_cases_make_bad_law

[nyanpasu64]

Personally I feel at least as unsettled about selective enforcement of rules (allowing some rule-violators to avoid getting caught or go unpunished once found out), or punishments or retaliation outside of rules, as harmful consequences of fully enforcing rules which are difficult to make "just" in all cases. Is there a better solution?