[thanosnose]

AKA, "up to the whims of a bureaucrat"? My god the pro-GPDR brigade is running wild.

[yifanl]

Any time a decision is made, it's up to the whims of somebody. What you're saying wouldn't make sense even if we had technical means to deterministically decide everything.

[ceejayoz]

There are very few punishments in Western democracies not subject to some level of judgement call. Until we've got AIs, questions like "was this deliberate" and "how much non-monetary harm was caused" will require a human (or group of them) to make a call.

[kiriakasis]

And even with the most perfect AIs we should still a lot of human judgement